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GETTING READY FOR
THE SCHOOL YEAR
As summer draws to a close, the new
school year arrives. And with that,
the questions arise: what technology
do the students need? Which apps
will help them stay on top of their
workload? ANTHONY CARUANA
takes a look.
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JONATHAN
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he Apple Watch will be the

biggest product out of Cupertino
in 2015. In true Apple style, the
company waited to canvass the wearable
market before showing off a product that
combines tness, design and connectivity
in a variety of personal styles.
But until the wearable launches
next month in the US, and hopefully
Australia, and the media coverage leaves
everything else on the backburner,
the rumours surrounding a new Apple
product have piqued my interest.
Many rumours remain just that,
ideas, whether born from fact or hopelled reporting, that do not realise into
products. And a 12in MacBook Air
sounds like another that could easy slip
into that category, but I think it will come
to pass.
Apple already sells 11in and 13in
MacBook Air models and that makes
it seem odd that the company would
release a model straight down the middle,
especially as the rumours claim Apple
will do away with full-sized USB ports,
MagSafe connectors and SD card slots in
order to accommodate a thinner body.
Apple has made these dramatic jumps
before. The iMac G3s launch in 1998
drew criticism for its lack of the, then
standard, oppy drive.
But with the rise of cloud storage and

Bluetooth accessories, the end of the
USB is on its way. It wont be tomorrow, or
even within a decade like the oppy drive,
but technology moves forward and Apple
has been willing to take the criticism in the
past.
Apple has taken a lead with the
removal of the optical drive from most of
its lineup and the non-Retina MacBook
Pro will likely disappear in the coming
months without much public protest.
The Air is designed for the road, tucked
up in bed or in a classroom, locations
where USB keyboards and mice dont
boost productivity.
Our iOS devices, besides the
headphone port, only feature a Lightning
connector and we dont have any issues
transferring data to and from them. It is
wireless and often hassle free.
A Thunderbolt port to connect to an
external display, on the other hand, would
have to feature.
If Apple does launch a redesigned
MacBook Air aligned with the rumours, it
will be a step forward for Apple and the
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LETTER OF THE MONTH
APPLES DIRECTION
DEPENDS ON THE WATCH

If the rumours are true and Apple is looking into an iPhone mini,
whether Id buy a mini is heavily dependent upon how well the
Apple Watch ends up complementing the iPhone. I mostly love
my iPhone 6 and find it a better phone than my iPhone 4s, but
the size is frustrating and awkward at times for me. There are
moments I feel like Im about to send the phone flying out of my
hand when I try to do things one-handed. It doesnt feel right
and its frustrating.
A smaller phone would have to have all the features of the
bigger phones, including the faster processors, NFC (near field
communication), camera, etc... and the screen quality needs
to be on a par with the bigger phones. One advantage of the
iPhone 6 screen that has nothing to do with its size, is that its
colour rendering and brightness range seem, to my eye, to be
noticeably better than my childs iPhone 5s (and way better than
my 4s). I would want that same image quality.
But again, it depends on how well the Apple Watch ends up
complementing the iPhone.
Benjamin
With regards to Marg Bs letter, The

Direction Apple Is Taking (November
2014), I have to agree entirely. I, too,
have expressed similar sentiments in
previous letters. I also only use iCloud
minimally for syncing Contacts, Mail,
Calendar and Find my Phone/Mac.
All my data is on my Macs and my
local backups, including an off-site
SuperDuper clone.
I have been a Mac user since 1998
and the current OS is the least Mac like
yet, the last proper Mac OS was Snow
Leopard. I was most disappointed
when Apple even dropped the word
Mac from OS X!
I also feel that the same thing could
be said about most Mac magazines.
I think they should change their name
to Appleworld, why not dump the
name Mac altogether? I have been a
reader and subscriber to Macworld for
many years and nd that for those of
us without an avid interest in iDevices,
iOS, apps and watches, it is becoming
less and less attractive...
Ken
MAIL
WORD FOR iOS
Id like to join the crowd that is

frustrated with the new iTunes 12.
Heres my simple test:
import an audio le into iTunes, and
sync it to your iPhone.
Ive been an iTunes user for years
and gave up. Why do they not rst
check to see if customers can do basic
tasks before they release upgrades?
I always suggest to software
makers that they sit behind users
trying to carry out basic tasks, but with
tape over their mouths and hands tied
behind their backs so they cannot
assist, to discover if their software
changes are, in fact, user friendly.
I have tried the Microsoft Ofce

apps for iOS on my iPad Air. They
are highly-featured and enhance the
iPad content creation experience.
However my organisation (university)
provides a site-licence for MS Ofce
and my MacBook Pro computer, but
not OneDrive or Ofce for iOS, thus
any subscription that I pay for Ofce
365 is for software that is partly already
provided. Microsoft needs to talk to
site licence holders regarding a licence
that enables staff to do their work on
computer and iPad.
Jamie H
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12IN MACBOOK AIR
In regards to Macworld Australias

online article, Why its (nally) time
to embrace thin client technology
(bit.ly/1FJlCbm), Ive lived through
several thin client revolutions so Im
not holding my breath.
While much of the technology is in
place, there is the perennial problem
of inadequate bandwidth. My home is
in Perth, Western Australia and, while
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most of the city doesnt. It is even
worse in rural areas. Thin client systems
can be implemented on a site-by-site
basis, but that negates some of the
advantages. Ill get excited when I can
do real work over the public network
but I dont think were there yet.
In reference to the online piece

Apples next MacBook could be a
12in MacBook Air (bit.ly/17yAREA), no
MagSafe? No way.
If the new USB port can charge,
how does one use other USB devices
or charge an iPhone if the laptop is
charging? Unless the charger doubles
as a USB hub, but that seems like a lot
of cabling all over the place.
I also cant see Apple selling an
11in, 12in and 13in Air plus a 13in and
15in Pro. Either the 11in or the 13in Air
is going or both. However, I can see
the Thunderbolt being only used on
the high-end laptops like FireWire did
previously. But if they ditch Thunderbolt
theres going to be some annoyed
people out there that just dropped a lot
of money on Thunderbolt drives.
Udi
JB
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A selection of Apple, Mac and iOS news from Macworld.com.au

iPhone 6, which went on sale globally last
September. Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo
began carrying the iPhone in 2013, a move
that gave iPhone sales a special boost that
year, Kantar says.
Android remained the dominant mobile
OS globally, buoyed by the ecosystems
variety of devices and prices, but its
market share decreased in the US and
some European countries compared with
the same period in 2013. Sales in the UK,
France, Germany, Spain and Italy, Europes
ve biggest economies, were collectively
iOS 8 RUNNING ON 68
PERCENT OF iPHONES
AND iPADS
after launch and it quickly became Apples
down by 3.2 percentage points. Even with
fastest growing mobile operating system.
this decline, Android was still the leading
iOS 8 lost that race.
mobile OS in those ve nations, holding a
Apple shared its latest data on iOS 8
8 installations are lagging. Bugs plagued
adoption in January, showing that 68
early releases remember when iOS 8.0.1
percent of iPhones, iPads and iPod
made some iPhone 6 and 6 Plus models
touches were running the latest version of
basically unusable? and it continues
Apples mobile operating system. Apple
to have little problems here and there,
APPLE BLOCKS TOOL

THAT BRUTE-FORCES
iCLOUD PASSWORDS
tracks iOS adoption by looking at devices
which could contribute to users hesitation.
Apple has xed an issue that could have
that access the App Store, and marking
Many of the perks of iOS 8 can only be
allowed attackers to launch brute-force
which version of iOS is running on each of
accessed on the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, and
attacks against iCloud users in order to
those devices.
some older devices may not be equipped
guess their passwords.
The latest App Store Distribution data
There are several theories on why iOS
to handle the update even if they are
69.9 percent market share.
The problem came to light after a proof-
was collected on 5 January. Besides iOS
technically compatible. Or, it could be the
of-concept attack tool called iDict was
8 data, it shows that 29 percent of devices
size of the install itself.
released on GitHub in early January.
of devices had upgraded to iOS 8. An eight
iPHONE 6 SALES
BOOST APPLES
SMARTPHONE OS
MARKET SHARE
online alias Pr0x13, the tool was described
percent uptick in two months time is pretty
The launch of the iPhone 6 helped Apple
slow, especially considering the sales
increase its share of the smartphone
of passwords for the targeted Apple IDs.
boost that Apple must have seen during
OS market in eight countries, according
By default the tool came with a le also
the holiday season.
to a report from research rm Kantar
called a dictionary containing 500
Worldpanel ComTech.
commonly used passwords, but the list
are still running iOS 7 and four percent are

still clutching on for dear life to iOS 6 or
earlier.
Apples last iOS adoption data was from
November 2014, which showed 60 percent
Weve noted before that iOS 8 has
Developed by a user who uses the

as 100% Working iCloud Apple ID
Dictionary attack that bypasses Account
Lockout restrictions and Secondary
Authentication on any account.
It worked by trying out a large number
had a particularly rough time getting off
For the three months ending in
the ground compared to older versions
November 2014, iOSs market share
of iOS. iOS 8 saw sky-high installations
grew in Australia, the US, Germany, the
the number of failed log-in attempts per
when it rst launched it hit 46 percent of
UK, China, France, Italy and Spain. Sales
account in order to prevent brute-force
devices just six days after it launched back
were weaker in only one of the surveyed
attacks, but Pr0x13 allegedly found a way
in September 2014 but then downloads
countries, Japan, where Apples share fell
to bypass those protections.
steadily tapered off. By comparison, iOS 7
by 15.3 percentage points. The decrease
hit 74 percent of devices just three months
wasnt due to a lack of interest in the
could have easily been extended.

Online services like iCloud typically limit
Pr0x13 claims that he made iDict public

in order to draw attention to the problem
NEWS
FEBRUARY 2015
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and force Apple to x it. This bug is

painfully obvious and was only a matter
of time before it was privately used for
malicious or nefarious activities, he said in
the tools description.
Apple was relatively quick to act and
started enforcing rate limiting for log-in
attempts done with iDict a day after the tool
became available.
APPLES BEATS UNIT

SUED BY MONSTER
OVER HEADPHONE
DEAL
Apples Beats Electronics and its
co-founders have been sued in a US
court for allegedly easing out headphones
developer Monster from a partnership
ahead of the 2014 acquisition by the
iPhone maker.
Describing a 2011 investment by HTC
in Beats as a sham transaction, Monster
and its founder Noel Lee have alleged that
the deal was used by Beats to invoke a
Beats co-founders Jimmy Iovine and
Beats acquired Monsters Beats By
clause in its contract with Monster to end
Andre Young, popularly known as Dr. Dre,
Dr. Dre product line, including all
the partnership while retaining all rights to
entered into a partnership with Monster
development, engineering, manufacturing,
the headphone technology.
in January 2008 to develop and promote
marketing, distributing and retail rights.
HTC, which has also been named as a
Monsters Beats By Dr. Dre product line,
If the partnership had expired on its
co-defendant in the complaint led in the
a licensed marketing label for a line of
own terms some months later, this transfer
Superior Court of California, acquired a
Monster headphones, according to the
would not have happened, according to
majority stake in Beats for about US$300
complaint. Monster claims it handled
the complaint, which holds that, as a result,
million, with the plan to use the headphones
all design, engineering, manufacturing,
Monster and Lee lost millions of dollars.
technology with its mobile phones.
production, marketing and distribution of
Lee had also sold most of his ve
the headphones in return for a licence to
percent stake in Beats in September 2012,
back half that equity from HTC, making
the Beats brand and celebrity marketing by
after HTC sold back half its stake to Beats,
the earlier ending of the partnership with
Iovine and Dre.
as he was concerned that he was being
By July 2012, Beats founders bought
kept in the dark by Beats about material
Monster by invoking a change of control
Simply put, Monster did all the work,
provision a complete sham, according
nanced the entire effort, and paid Iovine
aspects of the business. He was later
to the complaint, which cites as evidence
and Dre a royalty for their marketing
persuaded to ofoad the remaining 1.25
a conversation in May last year between
efforts, according to the complaint. By
percent share to Beats, resulting in a total
Monster executives and a board member
2009, Beats Electronics had been added
loss of over US$100 million if he was still
of HTC. By September, 2013 Beats had
to the licence and promotion agreement as
a ve percent stakeholder after the Apple
bought back the remaining equity held
a party and Lee was offered a ve percent
acquisition was announced, according to
by HTC.
stake in Beats equity to cement ties
the complaint.
Apple declined to comment on the suit.

HTC could not be immediately reached for
comment.
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between the two companies.

Citing the change of control provision in
the agreement after the HTC investment,
Monster has asked for damages

including punitive damages, and a jury trial
for all relevant issues. C
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A selection of Apple, Mac and iOS news from Macworld.com.au

Were so proud of the creativity and
Evans of Andreessen Horowitz. Slowing
innovation developers bring to the apps
growth or too much rounding?
they create for iOS users and that the
Evans was referring to comments Apple
developer community has now earned over
made during its earnings conference call
$25 billion, said Eddy Cue, Apples senior
for the quarter that ended 30 June, when
vice president of Internet Software and
CFO (chief nancial ofcer) Luca Maestri
Services, in the press release.
said, Our developers have now earned

over $20 billion for sales of their apps
APP STORE BROKE ITS

SALES RECORD ON
NEW YEARS DAY
Apple has announced that 1 January
APPLE RAKED IN OVER

US$4.3 BILLION FROM
APP STORE IN 2014
through the App Store, nearly half of which
Apple reported in January that gross
2014 and January 2015 statements each
revenue from its iOS App Store for 2014
saying that developers got approximately
was up 50 percent from 2013, although
$10 billion in the preceding 12 months as
according to the numbers, sales were up
indicating a slowing of growth.
only slightly from the 12 months prior to

June 2014, when it last hinted at revenue.
In a press release the company said
2015 was the single biggest day ever in
that the iPhone and iPad App Store
App Store sales history, with customers
generated over US$10 billion in revenue
spending nearly half a million US dollars on

both apps and in-app purchases on that
day alone.
Apples press release went on to boast
of record-breaking sales in 2014 as well.
for developers.
Apple typically couches its publicly
Jan Dawson, principal analyst at

Jackdaw Research, interprets the June
The App Store number does seem to

be slowing somewhat at around $2.5 billion
per quarter to developers each of the last
four quarters, Dawson says.
Apples $4.3 billion to $4.5 billion take
may have been real money more than its
total revenue for the 2005 scal year, Evans
disclosed numbers with enough wiggle
observes but it represented just over two
room that can be difcult to parse its
percent of the companys total revenue for
nancials. Thats the case here.
scal 2014.
App Store sales rose 50 percent in 2014
On one hand, because Apple skims
and thats just in paid apps and in-app
30 percent off the top, US$10 billion to
purchases, not including free apps and
developers would represent a total of
upgrades and generated more than
US$14.3 billion in gross revenue, with
US$10 billion in revenue for developers.
Apple retaining US$4.3 billion.
The launch of iOS 8 could have had
has been earned in the past 12 months.
However, a year ago, Apple said App
APPLE PATENT
REVEALS PLANS FOR A
GOPRO COMPETITOR
GoPro shareholders began panicking in
something to do with this highly successful
Store sales were over US$10 billion,
January after Apples patent application
year. iOS 8 introduced Apples Swift
implying that US$7 billion went to
for a wearable camera was approved. One
programming language and the Metal
developers and it kept US$3 billion.
look at Apples plans shows why the
graphics technology to developers, giving
So its contention that billings rose
application details a GoPro-like wearable
them different tools to create rich, robust
50 percent from 2013 would mean
perfect for action shots and underwater
apps more efciently.
revenue climbed to US$15 billion, putting
recording. Apple even takes aim at GoPro
Other campaigns could have
Apples slice of the pie at US$4.5 billion
in the patent ling.
contributed to this success, too, like
with developers receiving the remaining
Apples year-end (RED) initiative where all
US$10.5 billion.
proceeds from specic apps purchased
Analysts tried to gure out what
Apple may not ever make a wearable

camera, but if it does, itll be a GoPro on
steroids. The patent covers a camera
went to the Global Fund to ght AIDS.
Apples numbers meant, and whether they
that can be mounted to bike helmets and
Apple also introduced app bundles to the
showed signicant growth in the second
scuba masks or fastened to motorcycles
App Store in 2014, which lets developers
half of 2014.
and surfboards. The patent also details
package their apps together for users to
Apple has effectively stated trailing 12m
purchase at a lower price than if bought
app store rev was $10bn in both June 2014
could be used to take underwater
individually.
and December 2014, tweeted Benedict
snapshots.
plans for waterproong so an iPhone
NEWS
included with the ling and published by
US$324.5 million with the tech workers as
in the ling, specically the HD Hero2
PatentlyApple shows a remote control
she found it was too low. Google, Apple,
camera sold as part of an Outdoor edition
camera button on a watch. If Apple follows
Adobe Systems and Intel appealed her
bundle. In a copy of the ling obtained by
through on its patent, you may one day
decision in September.
PatentlyApple (bit.ly/14Ugcde), Apple said
control your AppleCam with Apple Watch.
the Hero2s single image capture system
GoPro shares dropped more than
alleged that Google, Apple, Intel, Adobe,
causes excessive wind resistance and
12 percent in the wake of the news.
Intuit, Lucaslm and Pixar put each

others employees off-limits to the other
has a large prole that sticks out from the

camera, making it more susceptible to
damage. Apple aims to create a camera
that can be used in a conventional handheld mode and a mounted mode with
high-quality results both ways.
The patent covers an image sensor,
The tech workers who led the suit
INTEL, GOOGLE,
APPLE TRY AGAIN TO
SETTLE EMPLOYEE
ANTITRUST LAWSUIT
Intel and three other tech companies,
companies by introducing measures such

as do-not-cold-call lists. The tech workers
alleged an overarching conspiracy to x
and suppress employee compensation
and to restrict employee mobility.
The companies had earlier settled similar
optical system and a remote control
accused of conspiring to prevent the
charges in 2010 with the US Department
to capture images that would enter
poaching of each others employees,
of Justice but admitted no wrongdoing.
energy-saving mode to conserve power.
reached a new settlement with the workers
They agreed not to ban cold calling and
Apple criticised existing remote control
in January.
enter into any agreements that prevent
accessories for their short battery life. A

gure of the remote control accessory
Judge Lucy Koh of the US District, last

year rejected a proposed settlement of
competition for employees. The employees

said that the government was unable to
compensate the victims of the conspiracy,
which was the reason they were ling a suit.
Intuit, Lucaslm and Pixar have
previously settled with the workers for
about US$20 million.
A court ling in May 2013 in the case
has led to more class action lawsuits that
allege secret no-poaching deals among
tech companies to keep salaries low.
The new suits against Microsoft, Oracle
and Ask.com appear to refer to a memo
that names a large number of companies
said to have arrived at special arrangements
with Google to prevent poaching of staff.
Oracle and Microsoft said in their defence
that the DOJ (Department of Justice) had
not seen t to prosecute them before 2010.
The new settlement would require the
approval of the court. C
FEBRUARY 2015
www.macworld.com.au
Apple critiqued GoPros action cameras
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iSNAP
And now son

we wait...
Damien Witham has sent in
this months winning picture,
starring two St Andrews Cross
spiders.
Snapped in the gardens surrounding
Damiens house, these two St Andrews
Cross spiders were busy putting the
nishing touches on their distinctive cross
web when Damien took his shot.
Re-mulching at the time, Damien
snapped his photo on an iPhone 6 around
15cm away from the pair without any zoom
and it turned out really well.
Ive taken a few photos of these
spiders and others over the years, but this
is the rst time Ive seen two on the same
web, and they appear to be mother and
son. Being a parent myself, I couldnt resist
getting a closer look, Damien says.
After often seeing the amazing spiders

when gardening, Damien did a little
research and now cant seem to stop
seeing them all over the place.
They are unmistakable. Once you
know about them, you kind of see them
everywhere. What sets them apart is the
way they use their legs and their web to
form a cross that resembles the Scottish
ag. They make a cross on the web, then
align their legs to create the illusion that
they are a lot bigger than they really are.
Although the reason they do [this] is
still a mystery. The cross creates a shine
in the sunlight, so is it to attract ying
insects? Or is to deter birds from ying

through it? Or is it simply to strengthen the
web? Whatever the reason, I think the St
Andrews Cross is amazing.
Using Apples Camera app, Damien
has been a long-time iPhone photographer.
I carry my phone in my pocket
everywhere. Ive had an iPhone for over
six years and the quality has been getting
better and better. I love the fact that if I see
something, like an interesting insect, I can
very quickly get a photo of it so I can then
research and nd out what it is. I do this all
the time. Im always yelling out to the kids,
Hey, come and take a look at this!
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GUEST COLUMN... BY JARED NEWMAN
Apple Watch and Android

Wear: same destination,
different paths
he more we learn about the

Apple Watch, the less it seems
like a revolutionary departure
from the existing wearable market.
In particular, it has a lot of overlap
with Android Wear, Googles own
wearable platform.
That much became clear when
Apple released its design guidelines for
third-party apps. Parsing the guidelines
alongside those for Android Wear
reveals two like-minded approaches:
quick, contextual interactions are paired
with data collection from sensors.
The two companies even use similar
language at times:
A Watch app complements your
iOS app; it does not replace it, Apple
writes. If you measure interactions
with your iOS app in minutes, you can
expect interactions with your Watch
app to be measured in seconds.
So interactions need to be brief and
interfaces need to be simple.
A classic wrist watch is designed
to let you see the time in a split second
and get on with what you were doing,

Google writes. Designing for Android
Wear is no different. The less time
it takes to use your software, the
more time the user can be present in
whatever they are doing. Android wear
is fast, sharp and immediate.
This isnt to say Android Wear and
the Apple Watch are exactly the same.
Even if theyre trying to arrive at the
same place, they manage to head
down diverging paths along the way.
GLANCES AND NOTIFICATIONS
On a basic level, the Apple Watch
and Android Wear are both driven by
actionable notications such as the
ability to delete an email or respond to
a message straight from the watch
as well as information cards that you
can quickly glance at. The primary
difference appears to be in the way
everythings laid out.
Android Wears interface is like a
big spinal cord, with glanceable cards,
actionable notications and even
music playback controls mashed up

into a single, vertical menu. Swiping to
the right of any notication brings up
potential actions (such as delete and
reply buttons for email). In some cases
you can launch a proper watch app
from its corresponding notication.
The Apple Watch takes a more
tentacled approach. Instead of
combining glances and notications
into a single column, the two are
distinct entities. When you want a quick
hit of simple information, such as a
current stock price or sports score, you
swipe up to the Glances section, then
swipe across to the info card youre
looking for. Tapping on a Glance leads
to its corresponding app if you want to
do more.
Notications on the Apple Watch
are more eeting, popping up with only
minimal information at rst. If you tap
the screen or keep your wrist raised,
more information and possible actions
appear. Otherwise, the notication
disappears.
GUEST COLUMN
LAUNCHING APPS: INCIDENTAL

VERSUS INTENTIONAL
The two platforms diverge even
more dramatically in the way youre
asked to launch deeper apps, such
as to-do lists, music players and
tness trackers. The Apple Watch
has a traditional home screen for this
purpose, accessed by tapping the
Digital Crown on the right side the
watch.
Android Wear has an app launcher
as well, but its obfuscated by design.
To access it, you have to tap the screen
from the main watch face, then swipe
all the way down to the bottom of a list
of options. Its possible to launch apps
with a voice command, but Googles
guidelines make it clear that most apps
should jump into the notication stack
automatically, presenting themselves
at just the right moment based on
context signals such as time, location
or physical activity.
Apps on Android Wear and the
Apple Watch will also have a more
fundamental difference, at least at
launch. On the Apple Watch, third-party
apps will require a paired smartphone
to operate until Apple allows for fully
native apps later in 2015. (Its not clear
which of Apples own apps, if any, will
be subject to these restrictions.) By
ofoading computational tasks and
storage to the phone, Apple Watch
apps can run more smoothly with less

drain on battery life.
Android Wear apps can be loaded
directly on the watch, and while most
apps require a phone connection to
be useful, the system already allows
for the independent operation of
basic utilities (such as calculators and
checklists) and ofine music playback.
Android Wear watches with GPS on
board can also keep track of your
location, speed and distance travelled
without a paired smartphone.
It seems likely that the differences
in these approaches will become less
pronounced over time. A future update
for Android Wear is rumoured to make
launching apps easier, and Apple
Watch apps may not need to rely so
much on a paired phone as Apples
hardware becomes more efcient.
Visualised.
Android
Wear and
Apple Watch
interface
ows.
HARDWARE DEPARTURES
Several other factors set Android Wear
and Apple Watch apart. The most
obvious difference is the hardware
itself, with Apple focusing on a single
device (in two sizes) and Google
working with hardware partners on
a wide variety of shapes, sizes and

prices. By controlling the hardware,
Apple is placing a bigger bet on new
interaction models, such as the Digital
Crown for non-touch controls and
Force Touch for pressure-sensitive
touch commands.
The Apple Watch also has the
advantage in mobile payments through
its support for Apple Pay, which is
already gaining traction among iPhone
users in the US. Google has its own
mobile wallet service, but hasnt
announced Android Wear support,
and no current watches have
the necessary NFC (near eld
communication) capabilities built-in.
But despite all these differences,
the Apple Watch and Android Wear
dont seem fundamentally different.
They both, in essence, try to save us
the trouble of using our phones by
delivering quick bursts of information,
and acting as collectors of data
(tness data in particular) to help us
live richer lives. In doing so, they
ensure that the Apple-Google rivalry
will be just as erce on wearables as
it has been on smartphones. C
FEBRUARY 2015
www.macworld.com.au
There are pros and cons to both

approaches. Android Wears single
stack of cards seems simpler to
navigate, and it allows apps to push
out glanceable information only when
its going to be helpful (such as when
a sports score changes). On the other
hand, Apple gives users more control
over what theyre looking at and more
privacy for incoming notications.
Apples interface also prevents
users from having a big pile up of
unaddressed notications to wade
through.
Both systems tackle the same
overarching concepts in slightly
different ways.
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GETTING
READY FOR
THE SCHOOL
YEAR
As summer draws to a close, the new school year arrives. And with that,
the questions arise: what technology do the students need? Which apps will
help them stay on top of their workload? Do they require accessories to aid
their gadgets? And can you answer those questions while saving money?
ANTHONY CARUANA takes a look.
FEATURE
FEBRUARY 2015
www.macworld.com.au
ts that time of the year when

the fatigue of keeping the kids
entertained over the summer is almost
overwhelming and youve got a to-do list
thats longer than your arm as you get
everything together for the start of another
school year.
There are books to buy, apps to
download, school bags and lunch boxes
to nd from last year hopefully without
a leftover banana or sandwich from
December buried inside and a million
other tasks to get through.
While we cant help you with six-weekold mouldy food, we can offer some advice
on getting ready for school in a few other
ways.
SAVING SOME MONEY

One of the most difcult parts of the
back to school period is dealing with the
signicant start-up cost of the school
year. The worst case scenario is needing a
new Mac or iPad, as well as the associated
accessories and software.
If youre buying from Apples App
Stores for iOS or OS X you can use iTunes
gift cards to load up your account. Shop
around for gift cards, as many retailers
offer them at signicant discounts. The
best weve managed to get our hands on
was a short online sale through a reputable
Portable. MacBook Airs are a lightweight solution with batteries lasting nine hours or longer.
retailer that sold a limited quantity of $10

gift cards at $2.99 each. However, youll
nd many large retailers and department
stores routinely offer discounts of between
25 percent and 30 percent.
Check out www.giftcardsonsale.com.au
for current discounts on iTunes and other
gift cards.
Shopping around for Apple hardware
is also worthwhile. Were fans of shopping
around and then nding a retailer that has
a policy of undercutting any advertised
price. Weve made some signicant savings
that way on many occasions.
Apples retail stores will often price
match if you ask.
When buying new hardware, unless
you absolutely must have the latest and
greatest, there are some real bargains
to be found if you consider refurbished
equipment. Apples online store has a link
to its refurbished products site where you
can nd some good deals.
All the products sold there include a
one-year warranty that can be boosted
with Apple Care as well as free shipping.
There are also other used computer
dealers, such as mResell, that offer great
service and prices. Just make sure you do
your research before handing over your
hard-earned cash.
be on your radar for the computers they

will be carrying between school and
home. Theres the 11in MacBook Air, 13in
MacBook Air or 13in MacBook Pro.
Although the 15in MacBook Pro is a
great machine, the extra cost, size and
weight dont make it an ideal choice for
students.
Once you choose between the larger
and smaller displays, the decision comes to
a balancing act between specications and
budget. Our advice is pretty simple. Dont
skimp on memory if your budget can
handle it, make sure you get a model with
8GB. Then, get the most storage capacity
you can afford. In our view, the CPU is the
third priority.
Modern processors can handle pretty
much anything most apps can throw at
them. We tend to run out of memory and
space before the processor constrains our
activities.
For the majority of students, a 13in
MacBook Air with 8GB of memory and
256GB of storage will cost around $1500.
While that sounds like a lot, its less than
$10 per week if your student uses it for
three full years.
A similarly equipped 11in MacBook Air
will cost about $100 less.
WHAT ABOUT AN iPAD?

WHAT NOTEBOOK
SHOULD YOU BUY?
Save on cards. Apple gift cards on sale offer

great value when looking to purchase apps.
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A few years ago, the government funded the

purchase of computers for many schools.
That arrangement funded the supply of
many thousands of computers in schools,
but now, a few years later, those computers
are no longer in use. As a result, many
schools are now moving to a BYOD model
where students supply their own computers.
With the focus on students, there are
probably only two screen sizes that will
Many schools jumped onto the iPad

bandwagon and fully embraced Apples
market-dening tablet.
If you look at Apples market strategy
with the iPad and iPad mini, it takes a
three-tiered approach. Older models are
kept in the market, proving a low-cost entry
point. The most recent previous release is
kept as a mid-level entry point with the
latest model, equipped with the latest bells
and whistles lling in the top end of the
market. Its a good, better, best approach.
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FEATURE
Once you decide whether a full-sized iPad

or an iPad mini is the best t for your
student, wed then suggest avoiding the
less expensive entry-level devices. While
they are good value, Apple has limited
them to lower storage capacities and they
are the most likely to be left behind when
a new version of iOS is released.
Assuming youre looking at the most
recent or prior release models, it comes
down to a balancing act between capacity
and budget.
Students are likely to be creating lots of
interesting content on their iPads. For this
reason, wed suggest 32GB as a minimum
capacity, but if your budget can stretch to
64GB, then wed suggest getting that.
SOFTWARE AND APPS

Having chosen the hardware that will
support your childs education, its time to
consider the software.
Regardless of whether youve chosen a
Mac, an iPad or both, Apple does give you
a head-start. All new Macs and iPads come
with free copies of Pages, Numbers and
Keynote, so students can hit the ground
running with their new gear.
Reminders at a glance. BusyCal combines

your reminders and calendar information in a
clean interface.
If the students have access to an iCloud

account, then they can easily share work
between devices if they save their work to
Apples cloud.
The reality is that Microsoft Ofce is
the de facto standard when it comes to
document sharing. The good news is that
Microsoft Ofce for iOS devices is free,
so students can use those applications to
create content for school.
Our other must-have app for students
is Evernote.
Evernote makes it easy to collect
research, take pictures, create simple
presentations, make notes, clip entire web
pages and share what youve discovered.
As its multi-platform, a student can
collect information using their iPad or
iPhone while on a eld trip and then use
that research on their Mac or PC when
theyre back at school or home.
As far as other apps go, there are
hundreds of apps in the education sections
of the iOS and OS X App Stores. Many
are extremely well-presented and deliver
information to students and teachers in
very stimulating ways. However, dont get
tempted to buy every well-presented app.
In many cases, the same content can be
found online at no cost.
Perhaps the most underemphasised
app category for students is organisation.
Students have a lot to balance between
classes, assignments, regular homework
and extracurricular activities like part-time
jobs, sports and social lives. Finding a tool
that works well for students can take some
trial and error. While were able to manage
our work using Apples Reminders and
Calendar apps with iOS and OS X, the one
thing we really miss is a single view where
tasks and appointments are all displayed in
one simple screen.
iOS covers this to some degree with the

Notication screen that can be accessed
by swiping down from the top edge of the
display. OS X has a similar function, which
is accessed by clicking on the icon in the
top right corner of the OS X menu bar.
However, getting all that information
into a single app so you can look ahead
and see what homework tasks, assignments
and classes can be viewed from a single
place can be useful. BusyCal is one app
that weve tried and think will t the bill.
The monthly and weekly views combine
the Calendar and Reminders information
so that you can, at a glance, see what the
coming days and weeks are going to look
like.
At $65 from the App Store, this isnt a
cheap app, but its just US$50 through the
BusyMac website.
RESOURCES TO SUPPORT
LEARNING
No two students learn in the same way.
One model for learning suggests that
students have three learning modes
visual, auditory and kinaesthetic. For this
reason, its important to nd interesting
ways to engage students that appeal to
their different learning styles.
Over recent years, the trend towards
gamication (the use of gaming paradigms
to enhance engagement in applications)
has taken hold and it can be a very
effective tool to make learning more
engaging and interesting. Great learning
games are fun for students and reinforce
positive learning outcomes.
For example, there are lots of
educational games where students have to
react quickly by responding to visual and
auditory cues in order to achieve certain
bonus levels or other incentives.
These cover maths, languages, spelling,
design, problem solving almost every
learning area covered in schools from
kindergarten all the way to Year 12 and
beyond.
If more formal learning tools are a
better match for you or the students youre
responsible for, theres the iTunes U.
iTunes U is a collection of lectures
and learning materials published by
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Protect it. The STM Studio, available in light

orange, black and purple, features a front cover
that can double as a stand.
Free and mobile. iTunes U is a library of learning resources from institutions around the world.
hundreds of the most respected teachers

and universities across the world. You
can freely download and watch classes
in subjects ranging from software
development to ancient history, languages
and physics if you can think of a subject,
there are probably a few different classes
you can download and follow.
iTunes U content is accessed via
iTunes on a Mac or by using the free apps
available for the iPad, iPhone or iPod
touch, so you can work through a subject
while ofine a handy idea if youre
easily distracted.
When looking for apps to support
learning, dont limit your search to the
education section of the different app
stores. Youll nd great apps in the games,
medical and entertainment areas as well,
although it may take a little more effort to
nd suitable apps.
Its also worth doing some online
sleuthing to nd what apps are
recommended by different education
departments and schools. Many schools
have blogs where they list the apps they
use and even blog about their suitability
for different students or whether theyre
effective tools.
CHARGING AND MANAGEMENT

Many schools choose to deploy iPads as
a shared classroom resource much like
a tub of books in the old days. The
challenge is keeping those iPads charged,
up-to-date with the latest apps and ready
for the next class.
The Bretford PowerSync Tray for iPad
with Lightning Connector ($1500 from
Apple Store) can hold up to 10 iPads. If
your school is using Apples free iPad
Congurator, you can use the PowerSync

Tray for iPad to update and deploy apps
to all of the iPads housed on the tray
simultaneously.
Bretford also offers carts that can hold
as many as 40 iPads. In addition, it has
an app, PowerSync+, which allows you
to manage each of the iPads in some of
its tray systems so you can check on the
charging status of each iPad, as well as the
status of any Congurator workows that
are in progress.
Local manufacturer PC Locs
(www.pclocs.com.au) has been making
notebook and tablet storage trolleys for
several years. It has a series of different
carts, such as the Aero and Carrier ranges.
These securely store and charge as many
as 60 iPads at one time ideal for school
libraries and labs.
It also offers the iQ Sync Charge Boxes.
These are devices that provide 16 2.1amp
USB ports for charging and syncing iPads.
iPAD CASES
A walk through any shopping centre
will reveal a multitude of different iPad
cases appealing to almost every taste and
preference. For student use, we highly
recommend looking at cases for their
protective capability rather than
aesthetic value.
Look for cases that offer solid protection at

the corners if an iPad hits the ground on
a corner, this can shatter a screen.
The Grifn Survivor All-Terrain Case
($80, www.grifntechnology.com) is a
good example, albeit possibly a little
extreme for most students. The Survivor
is built to the US militarys MIL-STD810F ruggedness standard. Its made
of shatter-resistant polycarbonate with
shock-resistant silicone cladding and
theres a built-in screen protector that seals
the iPads display from the environment.
Theres also a kickstand on the back, so
that students can easily prop their iPad up
while watching video or reading.
Weve got an OtterBox case for our
iPhone that we use when bike riding or at
the beach, and can vouch for its protective
capability. OtterBoxs iPad Defender Case
($90, www.otterbox.com) is made of
high-impact polycarbonate and includes
a foam interior that delivers added shock
absorption and protects the back of your
iPad from scratches. Despite not being
waterproof there are other cases in
OtterBoxs range if you need that capability
it should t the bill for most students.
If your needs are a little less extreme,
there are many other options to consider.
For example, the Belkin Stripe Cover
for iPad ($50, www.belkin.com/au) is
an elegant case with solid corners and
protection for the screen and back when
the iPad is stuffed into a school bag.
Similarly, the STM Studio ($60,
www.stmbags.com.au) is popular with
schools as the cases come in several colours
and offer solid protection. Like Apples
Smart Case, the STM Studios front cover
can fold and act as a stand, so that the
iPad can be used for viewing content or to
provide a more comfortable typing angle.
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iPAD KEYBOARDS
Keyboards are very personal things.
Finding one that works well and is
comfortable can take some trial and error.
Wed suggest trying a few out in a store
before committing to a purchase. Weve
tried some inexpensive units in the past
and found the keys to be very spongy, with
small keys that meant we spent a lot of
time xing errors.
For our money, Logitechs Ultrathin
Keyboard Cover ($99, www.logitech.com/
en-au) is simply excellent. It clips onto
the iPads magnetic edge and acts as a
protective cover for the iPads display.
Theres a channel about two-thirds of the
way back, just beyond the row of shortcut
keys that your iPads sits in, so you can
type with the screen propped up at a
confortable angle.
The Zagg Backlit Key Folio ($139,
www.zagg.com) is also a great option, as
it allows you to adjust the iPads viewing

angle over a 135-degree range. As the
iPad sits right at the back of the Key Folio
it also provides a larger typing area than
many other keyboards. In fact, when being
used, the Key Folio makes your iPad look
like a smaller MacBook Air.
MAC CASES
Carrying a computer back and forth
between home and school requires
a decent bag that wont leave your
student with a sore back and protects the
computer. Its tempting to just put the
MacBook Pro or MacBook Air in a sleeve
and shove it in the bag among the books.
But, having seen students and how they
treat their school bags, we suggest a more
rigorous approach.
Its also worth noting that a decent
backpack is likely to set you back a little
more than you may expect. But a well-
made unit will see your student through

most of their school life and possibly the
years beyond. So, think of it as a longterm investment.
Look for a bag that has a well-padded
base. Students often drop their bags. This
can result in percussive forces hitting
the computer, causing damage. Many
satchels and backpacks have specic
compartments, with extra padding, for
safely housing portable computers.
For example, the Thule 15in Stravan
Backpack ($130, www.thule.com.au) can
safely house a MacBook Pro in a wellpadded pocket that zips separately from
the backpacks main compartment. As its
made for larger devices, theres plenty of
room for books and the other bits and
pieces students carry between home and
school. It also boasts a storm cover, so
that it can be waterproofed for walks
home in the rain.
Different angles. The Zagg Backlit Key Folio can be adjusted over a 135-degree range and boasts a sizeable keyboard.
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If a school insists that students use a

standard issue bag as its part of the school
uniform, then wed suggest looking at
shell cases and slip cases. Speck makes
shell cases in a variety of different colours
and sizes to match all of Apples different
notebooks. They retail for around $60
(www.speckproducts.com).
While there are hundreds of different
slip cases and shells available, we really
like the Twelve South 13in BookBook for
MacBook Air ($90, www.twelvesouth.
com). It offers solid protection for the
notebook computer without looking like a
regular case. Twelve South has fashioned
an accessory that looks like an old book,
camouaging the MacBook Air. The
MacBook Air can be used while in the
BookBook, making it both protective and
functional.
GADGETS
One of the great things about modern
computers is the ability to connect all
sorts of different devices over USB.
While some can be a lot of fun (USB Nerf
Missile Launcher, anyone?), there are also
some serious educational tools that can
be connected to your MacBook Air or
MacBook Pro.
USB microscopes can be great tools
for inquisitive minds. When purchasing a
USB microscope, what youre really getting
is a USB camera with some fancy lenses.
However, one of the hidden challenges is
that many of these devices require extra
software to work with your Mac. We
suggest reading the ne print and doing
some research before buying.
For the aspiring artist, theres the
Instant Transmitting Paper to iPad Pen
($170, www.hammacher.com). This

special pen and transmitter (pictured above)
lets you draw on regular paper. You attach
a small transmitter to the top of the page
youre working on and the output from
the pen is sent to your iOS device. The
transmitter can hold up to 100 pages of
text.
Many teachers and parents will
lament how students can lose
concentration or come up with a
thousand excuses for cutting a study
session short. The Study Ball ($115) may
just be the cure. This 9kg ball is chained
to a students ankle with a timer. The
parent sets the timer for a dened period
of time. Once that time elapses, the chain
is released. If youve been looking for a
way to tether a student to their desk, this
may be the answer. C
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APPLICATIONS
MAC GEMS
NEW SOFTWARE FROM THE MAC APP STORE
ENDLESS LEGEND
GAMES
Amplitude Studios
US$34.99
For years, every 4X game weve come across has met with the same exact
response: Yeah, yeah, its good, but its no Civilization. Until now. Endless Legend
is a fantasy-themed 4X game that plays out fundamentally similar to Civilization
V, which is to say it plays out fundamentally similar to every other modern 4X
game. However, Endless Legend makes key tweaks to factions, combat, tech hubs and methods of expansion that
dramatically change how the game plays, and mostly for the better. Endless Legends art style, which combines pastel
colours with a tilt-shift effect, makes the whole thing look like an exceedingly complicated board game. Its gorgeous.
Endless Legend isnt perfect, but its the strongest Civilization competitor in years. Available via www.steampowered.com.
ESSENTIAL ANATOMY
DOWNCAST
3D4Medical
$42.99
Jamawkinaw Enterprises
$12.99
MEDICAL
A great tool for medical students

and professionals and for
those curious about the human
body Essential Anatomy 5 offers
an interactive look at what goes
under a persons skin. The app,
which comes with both male and
female models, offers high-quality graphics, easy navigation and location
of important features, and a number of advanced features that can be
unlocked using in-app purchases.
NEWS
Jamawkinaw Enterprises
Downcast brings the companys
popular podcast software,
previously only available on
iOS, to your Mac. The app
offers everything you need to
listen to your favourite shows,
from automatic podcast downloads via password protected feeds to
creating smart playlists, and can sync to its siblings via iCloud or using
Jamawkinaws own services.
MOUSEPOS
NIFTY SAVINGS GOAL
Boinx Software
$12.99
The Blue Plum Software

$2.49
UTILITIES
Boinx Softwares
Mousepos adds a number
of on-screen visual effects
associated with keyboard
and mouse events. The app,
ideal for presentations and
webcasts, can highlight the
location of your cursor, play
a special animation when you click your mouse button and even display
each key you press in big, bold letters on the screen.
TOP
PICK
FINANCE
If your aim is to save

a bit of dough, Blue
Plum Softwares $2.49
Nifty Savings Goal
wants to be the tool
that helps you achieve
your objective. The app
can tell you how long it
will take you to reach a
particular goal and help you budget for periods of any length.
APPLICATIONS
CALCTAPE
Glencode
$2.49
SFR Software
$7.49
UTILITIES
Wondering whats going on

inside your Mac? Glencodes
app conveniently displays a
number of technical details
about your machine right on
your desktop or Today panel.
The app can show information
a
storage media; a
convenient pop-up menu makes copying specic details like, say, your
Macs serial number a quick point-and-click affair.
FINANCE
SFR Softwares CalcTape

combines a word processor
with a calculator in a
unique and powerful
package. The app allows
you to combine text content
with calculations in a single
document and supports a
variety of convenient mathematical operations including the ability to
set your own live variables.
SNAPSELECT
PET DOC
Macphun
$18.99
Runesoft
$18.99
PHOTOGRAPHY
We all have large photo libraries

but storage space is a premium
on our Macs. Macphun is taking
on the headache with its new
app, Snapselect. If you have
disk space issues and a sizeable
photo library either scattered
throughout your Mac or interrupted by duplicates and unwanted images
or simply a large library in need of a cleanout, Snapselect is an easy-touse utility that will improve your photo management.
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PARTICULARS
GAMES
Runesofts Pet Doc

gives you a chance to
try your hand at playing
veterinarian. This quirky
game simulates a busy
vets ofce, with customers
showing up alongside their
pets in need of care for
various kinds of ailments. As your practice grows, you can expand to new
locations, offer more services and build a thriving business.
WALTR
UTILITIES
Softorino
US$29.95
iPhones and iPads are limited in the media le formats they can play. Plenty of third-party apps
will let you circumvent the restrictions manually but Waltr takes a different approach. Relieving
you of the hassle of converting les, Waltr does it for you, and copies the les to your iOS
devices. Drag les onto Waltrs window, and it will convert and copy les in most any media
format. There are no settings and no preferences, just a window onto which you drag items. And
when Waltr copies the les, you dont need to use a third-party app to play them you can access them from Apples
Music and Videos apps, just as you do with les youve synced from iTunes or downloaded from the iTunes Store.
Available via www.softorino.com.
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APPLE AND IBM

REVEAL 10 iOS
APPS THAT AIM
TO CHANGE THE
WAY YOU WORK
BY CAITLIN MCGARRY
The way banks, airlines, wireless carriers
and even governments do business
could soon change if Apple and IBM
have anything to say about it. The two
companies released 10 apps in December
designed to streamline business operations
behind the scenes, which may lead to
better service for the rest of us.
The new apps are the rst wave in a
lineup thats expected to include up to
100 iOS apps for business. IBM is rmly
entrenched in enterprise, while Apples
presence in the halls of giant corporations
has been largely unofcial, in the form of
employees using their personal iPhones
to send company emails. So the two
companies partnered up in July last year
to bring their complementary strengths to
businesses on iOS.
One app called Incident Aware will give
police a real-time look at maps and video
from crime scenes, as well as information
about victims and suspects, and better
backup request capabilities.
Another, Sales Assist, is designed to
help retail employees offer better service
to shoppers by giving them access to
customer proles with past purchase
history for improved recommendations. The
app also helps staffers manage inventory.
Apple and IBM produced a pair of apps
for airlines: Plan Flight for pilots offers a
look at ight schedules, ight plans and
crew manifests and the ability to report
in-ight problems to crew on the ground.
The other, Passenger+, gives ight crews
information about passengers so they can
tailor special offers to them.
Apple is offering AppleCare for
Enterprise, a 24-hour customer service
line, while IBM takes care of on-site issues.
The two companies will continue to

release apps throughout 2015.
A BRIEF LOOK AT THE FIRST 10

Plan Flight (Travel and
Transportation). Addresses the major
expense of all airlines fuel permitting
pilots to view ight schedules, ight
plans and crew manifests ahead of time,
report issues in-ight to ground crews
and make more informed decisions about
discretionary fuel.
Passenger+ (Travel and
Transportation). Empowers ight crews
to offer an unmatched level of personalised
services to passengers in-ight including
special offers, re-booking and baggage
information.
Advise & Grow (Banking and Financial
Markets). Puts bankers on premise with
their small business clients, with secure
authorisation to access client proles and
competitive analyses, gather analyticsdriven insights to make personalised
recommendations and complete secure
transactions.
Trusted Advice (Banking and Financial
Markets). Allows advisors to access and
manage client portfolios, gain insight
from powerful predictive analytics in the
clients kitchen or at the local coffee shop,
rather than the advisers ofce with
full ability to test recommendations with
sophisticated modelling tools all the way
to complete, secure transactions.
Retention (Insurance). Empowers
agents with access to customers proles
and history, including an analytics-driven
retention risk score as well as smart

alerts, reminders and recommendations
on next best steps and facilitation of key
transactions like collection of e-signatures
and premiums.
Case Advice (Government). Addresses
the issue of workload and support among
caseworkers who are making critical
decisions, one family or situation at a
time, on the go. The solution adjusts case
priorities based on real-time analyticsdriven insights and assesses risk based on
predictive analysis.
Incident Aware (Government). Converts
an iPhone into a vital crime prevention
asset, presenting law enforcement ofcers
with real-time access to maps and videofeeds of incident locations; information
about victim status, escalation risk and
crime history; and improved ability to call
for back-up and supporting services.
Sales Assist (Retail). Enables associates
to connect with customer proles, make
suggestions based on previous purchases
and current selections, check inventory,
locate items in-store and ship out-of-store
items.
Pick & Pack (Retail). Combines
proximity-based technology with back-end
inventory systems for transformed order
fullment.
Expert Tech (Telecommunications).
Taps into native iOS capabilities including
FaceTime for easy access to expertise and
location services for route optimisation
to deliver superior on-site service, more
effective issue resolution and productivity
as well as improved customer satisfaction.
BUSINESS
BY SHARON GAUDIN
Facebook, the world's largest social
network, is making its rst move into the
enterprise.
The company has conrmed that it is
beginning a pilot test of a desktop service
and mobile app for what's being dubbed
Facebook at Work, an enterprise-level
social and collaborative network for the
workplace.
Facebook at Work is a separate
experience that gives employees the ability
to connect and collaborate efciently
using Facebook tools many that they're
likely already using, such as News Feed,
Groups, messages and events," a Facebook
spokeswoman wrote in an email. Coworkers can stay in touch with each other
in the same way they stay in touch with
friends and family via Facebook."
She noted that while Facebook at Work

is designed to give users the look and
functions they're familiar with on their
social network, this service will be
separate.
Employees' documents or information
shared on Facebook at Work will not be
connected to their personal Facebook
pages. The info shared among employees
is only accessible to people in the
company," the spokeswoman added.
Facebook is testing the new service
with a few partners.
The enterprise market is an
important one to virtually every single
major software company," says Patrick
Moorhead, an analyst with Moor Insights
& Strategy. As the enterprise market is
generally seen as a more protable one,
this will give Facebook an opportunity to
drive up their protability."
With its success in social media,
Facebook should have plenty to offer
a company that wants to help workers
collaborate.
Consider what Facebook brings to the
table for the enterprise customer," says Dan
Olds, an analyst with the Gabriel Consulting
Group. First, Facebook absolutely knows
how to run a social network from a
technical standpoint. They know how to
make it reliable, secure and how to scale it.
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TAKES ON THE
ENTERPRISE
WITH NEW
SOCIAL
NETWORK
They also know the feature mix and content

that gets people engaged with the network
and coming back for more."
The enterprise could be a big new
lucrative market for Facebook.
It will be very interesting to see the
business model underpinning this effort,"
adds Olds. Will it be a purely pay-toplay, where a corporation essentially
rents a Facebook instance for use by their
employees alone? Or will there be an
option where advertising from outsiders
could be used to defray the cost of the
corporate service? How much do you
think a luxury car manufacturer or a large
multinational bank would pay to have a
sidebar ad on the company Facebook site?"
Of course, there is the risk that effort
could fail if companies don't trust
Facebook, which has had a history of
privacy issues with users' information.
I don't think Facebook is trusted
enough to pull this off," Olds says. There
are far more concerns about privacy with
business services, and folks don't believe
Facebook is focused enough on security.
Facebook's brand just isn't a business but a
consumer brand."
On the other hand, Zeus Kerravala, an
analyst with ZK Research, says Facebook is
onto a great idea.
Think about it. Fifteen years ago, the
rst thing we did when we woke up was
check voice mail," he says. Five years ago
the rst thing we did was check email.
Today, we check our social feed. Now with
Facebook at Work, we can check our work
feeds. We can organise ourselves by projects
instead of social groups. Instead of sending
co-workers email, we'll message them."
Using a network to collaborate in the
ofce especially one that so many people
are familiar with is a better way to work,
according to Kerravala.
However, if Facebook at Work fails, it
could be a big stumble for the company.
Well it's a revenue path they don't
have right now, so if they fail, it's a shortterm blip," he says. Long-term it could
be a bigger problem because it could limit
their growth. And I will say that serving
consumers and businesses is very difcult.
Very few companies can do both."
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FOUR TEXT
SKILLS EVERY
MAC USER
SHOULD HAVE
BY JOE KISSELL
The new year is well underway. Although
Im not much for resolutions, if youre
aiming to boost your productivity, Id like
to suggest learning (or brushing up on)
four key skills. They all involve working
with text and each of them will benet
almost any Mac user (and, for that matter,
almost any computer user, period).
But in Markdown, its much simpler:

[Macworld Australia]
(http://www.macworld.com.au/)
In all likelihood youll quickly get
the gist of Markdown just by looking
at Markdown creator John Grubers
Markdown page (www.daringreball.net/
projects/markdown), but you may nd it
more fun to use the interactive Markdown
Tutorial website (www.markdowntutorial.
com) instead.
The beauty of Markdown is that
because its based on plain text, you can
USE REGULAR EXPRESSIONS
WRITE IN MARKDOWN
If your work involves writing of almost
any kind blog posts, articles, books or
even academic papers a couple of hours
spent learning the basics of Markdown will
pay huge dividends.
Many major publications and blogging
platforms (including WordPress) support
this powerful yet lightweight method of
text formatting. You mark up plain text
les using simple tags (which are much
friendlier and more readable than HTML)
and then a behind-the-scenes converter
can render that text as a fully formatted
document in HTML, PDF, EPUB or other
format.
For example, if you wanted to insert a
clickable link using raw HTML, youd have
to do it like this:
<a href=http://www.macworld.com.
au/">Macworld Australia</a>
use virtually any word processor or text

editor, on any platform, to write and edit
without sacricing the richness of full
formatting in the nal product. I generally
work in unadorned Markdown using
BBEdit or Nisus Writer Pro, but if you want
extra bells and whistles such as a live
preview of the formatted output, shortcuts
for adding tags or syntax colouring you
can nd innumerable Markdown editors
and utilities in the Mac or iOS App Store.
A few examples of highly-rated Markdown
apps are Brett Terpstras Marked 2,
Information Architects iA Writer for OS X
and iOS, and omz:softwares Editorial.
Youre bound to encounter numerous
variants of John Grubers original
Markdown specication that add features
not supported in the original (such as
tables, footnotes and denition lists) or
follow stricter interpretation rules. But the
core features are pretty much the same
in every implementation and once you
know the basics, you can easily adapt to
alternative versions if the need arises.
Simple style. Editorial for iOS features syntax

styling, Markdown shortcuts and a built-in preview
pane for Markdown documents.
On countless occasions youve

undoubtedly used Spotlight to search
for a le on your Mac or your word
processors Find and Replace feature to
locate or change text. But sometimes a
simple search doesnt cut it, even with
the addition of simple wildcards like ?
for any single character or * for multiple
characters. For example, what if I want
to nd every instance of a caption in a
book Im working on something like
Figure 42: Blah blah blah and make just
the gure number (and the trailing colon)
bold but not touch any references to
those gures (like see Figure 42) in the
body text?
In cases like these, which I encounter
on a daily basis, I use a regular expression
(or regex for short), which is a sort of
formula, based on a exible system of
wildcards, that lets me identify nearly
any sort of textual pattern. (A regex for
the word Figure, followed by a space, one
or more digits, and a colon but only if
it appears at the beginning of a line is
^Figure [0-9]+\:.)
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Find it. Nisus Writer has the best implementation of regex-based find and replace weve ever seen.
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Strong security. AgileBits 1Password offers ease of use but at a price.
The best implementation of regex Ive

ever seen is in Nisus Softwares Nisus
Writer Pro (a less powerful version is
found in Nisus Writer Express). Other apps
that support regex include Bare Bones
Softwares TextWrangler and BBEdit,
Peter Borgs Smultron and Nikolai Krills
Patterns. You can also employ regular
expressions to nd les on your Mac
using the grep command-line utility in
Terminal.
A great way to teach yourself the ins
and outs of regex is to use an interactive
website that shows you matching text in
real time as you change your input. Sites
that do this include regexpal (regexpal.
com), RegexOne (www.regexpal.com) and
RegExr (www.regexr.com).
or other item that contains this or that,

this and that, or some other logical
combination such as (this or that) and the
other thing but not something else, you
want a Boolean expression.
A Boolean expression uses the logical
terms AND, OR and NOT (often along with
parentheses and quotation marks) to come
up with a true or false statement. Search
for sticks OR stones and youll match
anything that has either term; search for
sticks AND stones and youll match only
items that contain both. For the most part,
its that simple.
You can use Boolean expressions in
Spotlight, Mail rules, Calendar searches
and many third-party apps. Unfortunately,
Boolean logic isnt currently supported in
Contacts, iTunes or the App Store.
USE BOOLEAN EXPRESSIONS

Continuing the theme of identifying
patterns, sometimes its not a sequence
of characters or words youre looking for
but rather a logical combination of terms
within a le. For example, I may want
to nd any email message that contains
the word apple but only if it also has a
term that suggests a dessert, such as pie,
cobbler or whipped cream. Whenever
youre looking for a le, message, contact
CREATE A SECURE PASSWORD

A good password one that will resist
almost any attempt at cracking should be
long and unguessable, with a combination
of uppercase and lowercase letters, digits
and punctuation. But when were asked
to create such passwords, many of us
encounter a mental block.
You often hear mnemonic tips like
Make a long sentence and then your
password becomes the rst letter of each

word (and that can include capitalisation
and punctuation). That wouldnt be
terrible advice if you had only one or two
passwords to remember. But you probably
have dozens, or maybe even hundreds.
(I have well over 700 unique passwords.)
One of the worst security mistakes you
can make is reusing the same password
in multiple places if one password were
stolen, leaked or cracked, an attacker could
access all the accounts that use the same
password. Keeping every password unique
contains the damage.
The sane way to create and remember
lots of long, random passwords is to use
software that does all the work for you,
syncs your passwords securely across all
your devices and automatically lls them
in when needed. If you use Safari on
OS X and iOS, iCloud Keychain can do
all this for you. If you want to use
multiple browsers or non-Apple operating
systems, if you want longer and stronger
passwords or if youd like additional
features such as storing software licences
and other personal data, you may prefer
a third-party app such as AgileBits
1Password, Dashlane Premium or
LastPass. C
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h t are the most ecient and eective hardware
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padded feet protect the desktop surface beneath
the stand. It even comes with a polishing cloth!
Twelve South / US$59.99 + shipping /
www.twelvesouth.com
GEAR S
GIZMOES
GOODI
GADGETGUIDE
Sofo MacBook
Sleeve Backpack
Papernomad Pars 6
Mujjo Leather Wallet

Case for iPhone 6
The MacBook Sleeve Backpack is handmade in Italy

from 100 percent natural leather. The Sofo backpack
features a main sleeve capable of holding a 15in
laptop and the front sleeve is big enough to t an iPad
mini and assorted other objects such as a charger,
iPhone, earphones, etc. It can be worn as a backpack,
shoulder bag or carried as a briefcase or sleeve.
The Pars 6 protects your handset with a sleeve made

from a combination of paper pulp and corn-based
bioplastics. Tear- and water-resistant, the sleeve
features an antistatic wool felt for extra padding,
a pull-strap to quickly access your iPhone and a
magnetic lock to keep everything secure when you're
not using your iPhone.
Mujjos Leather Wallet Case for the iPhone 6 is

designed to hold two or three cards in a slim
package. Crafted from high quality vegetabletanned leather, the case features a cutout for your
smartphones camera and provides access to all
buttons and ports. Available in black or tan, the
leather case also has a suede-lined interior.
Sofo
210 + shipping
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Papernomad
US$30 + shipping
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Mujjo
$49.90 + shipping
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PRODUCTS
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Satechi F3 Smart
Monitor Stand
Moment Wide Lens

and Tele Lens
Pad & Quill Author for

iPad mini 3
Ever wished you could raise your desktop display and

have access to more USB ports? This stand could
be the answer. Satechis F3 Smart Monitor Stand
features four USB 3.0 ports, as well as headphone
and microphone extension ports. Measuring 55.1 x
23.1 x 2.5cm, the stand has two height presets and is
recommended for displays under 10kg.
At US$99.99 each, Moments Wide Lens and Tele

Lens are for serious iPhone shutterbugs. Born on
Kickstarter, they snap onto a little accessory mount
that you attach to your phone with (nonpermanent)
adhesive. The Wide Lens is the equivalent of
18mm and the Tele Lens is 60mm, and theyre both
specially designed to avoid distortion.
Satechi
US$59.99 + shipping
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Moment
US$99.99 + shipping
momentlens.co
The Author turns your tablet into a stylish book with

completely customisable looks from the inside
out. Made of hand-nished wood, the case features
precise cutouts for your ports and buttons, includes
a proprietary bookmark for easy removal and is
compatible with the iPad mini 3s magnetic sleep/
wake feature. As an option, a pocket can be added to
store documents while youre on the go.
Pad & Quill
US$69.99 + shipping
www.padandquill.com
STM Harbour for

iPhone 6
The Harbour sports a dual-layer construction
designed to prevent damage from drops and
scratches. Made of tthermo polyurethane, the
iPhone 6 and iPhonee 6 Plus cases precisely t your
handset for minimal bulk, provides easy access to
all ports and buttonss, and come in green, charcoal,
dark red or black. Thhe bottom of the cases feature a
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APPLICATIONS
APP GUIDE
Cool software for the iPad, iPhone & iPod touch.
WORKFLOW
PRODUCTIVITY
DeskConnect
iPHONE & iPAD $3.99

The rst true automator for iOS, Workow takes full advantage of Apples looser restrictions on sharing to
bring new levels of interactivity and multitasking to our handheld devices. More versatile than the situational
IFTTT and more powerful than even Launch Center Pros slick system of shortcuts, Workows
endlessly customisable actions integrate seamlessly into the apps you already use to help
you work smarter, faster and just plain better. Workow works with a decent cross-section
of third-party apps like Tweetbot, Things, Uber and Evernote, as well as tapping into iCloud
Drives le system for uploading, but I get the impression that it will be evolving rather
quickly. But even if it never sees another update, Workow doesnt disappoint.
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BASECAMP
KITCHENBOWL
BUSINESS
FOOD & DRINK
Basecamp
Apphat
iPHONE & iPAD FREE
iPHONE FREE
This collaborative workspace app has been

updated in both its free iPhone and iPad versions.
In both cases, its now easier to create and assign
To-Dos and both apps are more easily searched.
The iPhone version lets you see the days tasks
directly from the widget screen. Best of all: if you
nish using Basecamp on one device, you can
pick it up from another device.
Kitchenbowl is a free iPhone app that aims to be a

social community for foodies, who can use the app
to share and discover step-by-step photo recipes.
Users can follow others, interact with each other
by sharing comments and liking posts, bookmark
recipes of interest and even create their own stepby-step recipes to share on their social networks.
MUSIC CENTER
MICROMON
MUSIC
GAMES
Akhil Tolani
Pocket Trend
iPHONE & iPAD FREE
iPHONE & iPAD $1.29
This free app does one thing: it creates a widget

that lets you view and play your entire music
library from the Notication Centers Today view
on your iPhones lock screen or from within
another app. Users can scroll through their
favourite tunes via a list or tile view and play,
pause, shufe, repeat and move back or forward
through tracks via music controls.
If you love Pokmon, youll

also love Pocket Trends
Micromon because its
practically the same game.
Micromon is an adventure
game in which you use
Micromons to battle other characters and players. You a newly minted
Micromon tamer travel throughout the world of Pixekai catching
Micromons, training them and battling leaders. Plus, for the games entry
price, you get hours of gameplay.
APPLICATIONS
CENTRALLO
WEATHER
PRODUCTIVITY
r3app
Centrallo
iPHONE & iPAD FREE
iPHONE & iPAD $2.49

The beautifully designed Wthr Complete offers a
variety of weather information in the one location
including the current conditions, an eight-day
forecast, air quality, UV, sunrise/sunset, moon
phase, the days average over the last four years
and hourly temperatures for yesterday, today and
tomorrow. The app has information from over one
million locations and an on-screen clock shows
the local time.
Heres another get-things-done

app for iOS that lets you make
to-do lists and to-do lists within
to-do lists, but Centrallo lets you
add videos, photos, voice notes,
links and more to items, letting
you create a robust universe of
information to guide you as you go about your daily routine. Users can
even set due dates in your calendar.
WIRE
BEAN DREAMS
SOCIAL NETWORKING
GAMES
Zeta Project Swiss
Kumobius
iPHONE & iPAD FREE
iPHONE & iPAD $3.79
Wire is a bit like Skype for messaging and audio

chats, only a bit more versatile. The iOS app lets
you integrate pictures, links, SoundCloud music
and YouTube videos into the conversation. Its
available with a companion app for OS X, so
you can converse however youre online.
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WTHR COMPLETE
In Bean Dreams you play as

a sombrero-wearing jumping
bean in an adorable platformer
world. Beyond that, theres
not much to get and thats
part of the charm of this
instant classic game. With 48
unlockable stages, a rare degree
of exibility in a players approach to a level, clever level design and an
exceptionally fun, bright aesthetic, Bean Dreams is a quality game.
CROSSY ROAD
GAMES
Hipster Whale
iPHONE & iPAD FREE

Its only been out a few months but Crossy Road is one of the top time-absorbing iOS games
on the App Store. Built on the same premise as Frogger, Crossy Road is a straightforward
game of timing and reexes, but that doesnt stop it from being a difcult game to really excel
in. Here, theres no goal at the end of the stage, along with no set pattern of roads and rivers.
Everything is randomly generated, which means youll face a new challenge every time. Crossy
Road is charming, with vivid block-based artwork that surely owes some debt to Minecraft.
Whether or not you have a soft spot for Frogger, by which it is inspired, Crossy Road is one of
the top time sinks available on the App Store today.
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So where does everything else reside?

On an external RAID setup, complete
with a spare drive in a drawer (in the
event of a drive failure). This strategy
protects my les well enough while
Im working. But, as youll often hear,
RAID is not a backup solution. So how
then do I back up my les?
I use a multi-drive, multi-location
backup strategy, with the goal of
ensuring that I wont ever lose a
critical le due to equipment failure or
natural disaster. (Its still quite possible
to lose data via user stupidity; even
the best backup plan isnt completely
foolproof in that regard. But I take
steps to minimise that risk as well.)
LEVEL 1: TIME MACHINE
The paranoid
persons guide to
a complete Mac
backup
BY ROB GRIFFITHS
m somewhat paranoid about

backing up my data les. And
by somewhat paranoid, I mean
petried. If youre not of a similar
mindset, you should be. Consider
what it would mean to lose some
irreplaceable photos, for instance.
Or the please-let-me-keep-my-job
presentation that youve been pulling
together for months. Or your nancial
data. Being paranoid in every waking
hour isnt a great way to get through
life, but when it comes to backing up
your data its nearly impossible to go
too far. Heres the multi-level plan I
use to keep my paranoia at bay.
LEVEL 0: SYSTEM SETUP

My backup plan begins with my basic
system setup, which may be different
from yours. I keep very little data on
the internal boot drive. My users
folder is on that drive, along with my
most used applications. But thats it
everything else is saved elsewhere.
I even go so far as to use aliases (or
symbolic links, if necessary) to move
large data les off the boot drive for
programs that dont let me specify a
storage location. As a result, my boot
drive is typically fairly empty Im
using just 75GB of the 256GB SSD in
my Retina iMac, for example.
Time Machine is my rst line of

defence, and the only aspect of my
strategy that includes support for
older versions of les. Its the rst
place I go if Ive accidentally deleted
a le (user stupidity) or need an older
version of something.
In order to keep the deepest
version history possible, I skip a fair
number of le types from my backups.
You can have Time Machine skip
certain les or folders by clicking the
Options button in the Time Machine
system preferences panel, then
clicking the plus sign to adding those
les youd like Time Machine to skip.
Tip. If you add an OS X-owned folder
such as the top-level System folder
Leave them out. I exclude a lot of les and folders from Time
Machine, including all system-related les and stock OS X
applications.
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Time Machine will ask you if youd

like to skip all system les. I reply yes,
because Level Two of my strategy
takes care of my system les. When
you say yes, Time Machine shows
System Files and Applications as
being excluded from the backup.
In addition to the system les
and applications, what other types
of things do I skip? I dont back up
any ripped DVD or Blu-ray movies,
again because theres no need for
versioning, and theyre backed up
at other levels of my strategy. I also
exclude any Parallels or Fusion virtual
machines as both apps include their
own snapshot features for versioning,
and I back up the full virtual machines
elsewhere.
By not using Time Machine for
these types of les, Ive freed up
hundreds of gigabytes of space that
can be used for multiple versions of
my data les. I do, however, have
Time Machine back up my iPhoto and
iTunes libraries, along with all my work
and personal data les. These are
les that I want to be able to get back
quickly, or access older versions with
a minimum of hassle.
LEVEL 3: PARANOID BACKUP

I call this level my paranoid backup,
because I always think something
can go wrong with my backups.
My paranoid backup is another full
backup of my les, to supplement
both Level 1 and Level 4 backups. I
use the Sabrent drive dock and CCC4
for this backup as well; when I insert
LEVEL 2: BOOT CLONE

A boot clone is not a perfect copy of
your favourite pair of boots. Rather
its a perfect copy of the hard drive
that boots your Mac. Having a clone
is critical if your boot drive ever has
a fatal error, you can connect the
clone drive and reboot, and be back
where you were with a minimum of
disruption.
There are many ways to make a
boot clone. I use Carbon Copy Cloner
Organised. This section of Carbon Copy Cloner 4 allows one

backup task to run when the current task nishes. This makes
it simple to chain together tasks that back up les on different
disks, for instance.
the Paranoid disk, CCC4 res off the

backup task.
One very useful feature in CCC4 for
the paranoid backup is the ability to
chain backup tasks. Because this is
a full backup with les from both the
RAID and internal hard drive, I have
four separate backup tasks in CCC4.
The rst task is set to run on disk
mount. The following tasks are set to
run when the prior task completes.
So my paranoid backup is just
as simple to run as my boot clone:
I insert the Paranoid disk, and the
magic just happens. When its done,
I remove the drive and return it to its
storage location. I usually do this once
a day, though sometimes twice if Im
creating a lot of new les.
Im so paranoid that I even back
up my cloud services les here, even
though they reside on every Mac and
in the cloud. So yes, Im paranoid
about backups!
LEVEL 4: OFF-SITE BACKUP

The best backup strategy in the world
is no good if all of the backups are
stored with the computer. You need
to keep a set of les in a separate
location in case your primary location
is visited by re, ood, theft or other
disaster. In my case, that means
sending a backup disk to my wifes
ofce.
Our off-site backup is also done on
a bare disk, inserted into the Sabrent
drive dock. As with the Paranoid
backup, it runs via CCC4 on drive
mount, and chains together a number
of separate tasks to perform a full
backup.
My wife brings the drive home
once a week, I update the backup
that evening, and it goes back in the
morning. So yes, we have one nights
exposure to a disaster while the disk
is home. But I keep the disk elsewhere
that night, so at least its nowhere near
the computer.
To remind my wife to bring the drive
home, I rely on the simple AppleScript
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The plan. My boot clone is created using Carbon Copy Cloner

4 here you can see its set to run when the clone disk is
attached to my iMac.
4 (CCC4). Creating a clone with CCC4

is a simple point-and-click operation.
As I dont like leaving a clone drive
connected all the time, I have a bare
drive that I insert into a Sabrent 3 drive
dock on a regular schedule.
I update my clone about three
times a week. Because the vast
majority of my les live on the RAID,
its not critical that the clone is current
to the minute. Using CCC4, I created
a clone task thats set to run on disk
mount. Updating the clone is as
easy as dropping the bare drive into
the drive dock; CCC4 sees the drive
mount and starts updating the clone.
Typically the whole task takes about
ve minutes, as only changed les are
updated. (The initial clone takes much
longer, of course.)
When the clone is complete, I
remove the drive from the drive dock
and put it back in its storage box for a
couple of days. If my boot drive ever
fails, I know I can get back up and
running in a hurry, and probably not
be missing anything other than some
modied preference les.
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Obviously, youll need to change the

scripts email addresses to contain
valid To and From addresses, and you
can change the subject and the text of
the email to suit your needs.
I run this script once a week, using
a launch agent. (Yes, she could put a
repeating reminder on her calendar,
but I like to make sure she gets a
reminder from me, too.)
LEVEL 5: DOUBLE-PARANOID
BACKUP
This is an automated backup to our
Time Capsule of critical work and
personal les that runs four times a day
via a scheduled task in CCC4. Its fully
automatic; I see the OS X notication
when the backup nishes, but thats
the extent of my involvement in it.
In addition to copying to the Time
Capsule, I also copy from the Time
Capsule. I use a set of scripts to
back up our websites to the Time
Capsule. These backup les are then
copied to a backup folder on my RAID
three times a day, so that they are
also backed up. (These backups of
backups eventually wind up on some
of the other backups as well.)
I cannot fathom having to use this
extra-extra redundant backup, but
it makes me comfortable knowing it
exists.
issue: this data is mine, and I dont

want to rely on a third party to stay
in business in order to get my data if
I need it back. Finally, if I do have a
major crisis, waiting hours (days?) to
download 3TB of data to get back up
and running is not my idea of a good
way to spend my time.
Despite my general disinterest in a
full cloud-based backup, I do back up
some key les to the cloud. That way
theyll be in yet one more place in the
event of a major problem.
Although the cloud services
encrypt your data, Im still a bit
uncomfortable trusting that there wont
be an exposure somewhere along
the line. So before I back up any les
to the cloud, I rst copy them to an
encrypted disk image and then copy
that image to the cloud (using a CCC4
task). That way, if someone does get
a decrypted copy of what was on the
cloud, my data will still be protected,
as it was encrypted locally rst.
Perhaps in the future when cloud
drives are all 4TB+ in size, and
our upstream connection speed is
measured in gigabits per second, Ill
be more comfortable with a primarilycloud-based backup solution. Until
then, I view the cloud as an additional
element in my backup strategy, not a
primary destination.
LEVEL 6: CLOUD BACKUP

If youve read this far, youve probably
wondering why I dont just back up
everything to a cloud drive somewhere
and be done with it. There are a few
reasons why I dont use it as my
primary backup target.
I have a lot of data at nearly
3TB, getting the initial backup done
would take forever. I also dont like
the thought of using my upstream
bandwidth to update a backup on
a regular basis. Theres also a trust
Off-site backup. A cloud-based service such as CrashPlan is

another backup option.
OTHER MACS
Although we have more than one
Mac in the house, all of the key les
reside on my primary iMac. The other
machines have their data les backed
up to our Time Capsule via Time
Machine. Critical les are then copied
out to a cloud drive on a regular basis
(and encrypted rst). However, I dont
bother with a boot clone for the other
Macs. If one of them were to have a
disk failure, itd be an inconvenience,
but no single disk is so critical to us
that it needs to be up and running
immediately.
THE FINAL WORD

Im probably an outlier in terms of
backup strategy; I dont expect nor
preach all to follow what I do. But you
should have some kind of backup plan
for your data, and that plan should
involve redundant backups, with at
least one of them being stored off-site.
You can accomplish this with Time
Machine and an off-site backup, or
Time Machine and a cloud service
backup, or some other combination
of here and there schemes. The
important thing is to have copies of
your data les in multiple places.
In addition, your backup plan
must be as simple as possible to
implement. If its complicated, you
wont keep up, and an old backup
isnt much better than no backup.
After years of trying various solutions,
Im incredibly happy with the amount
of automation in my current plan. All
I have to do is drop disks into a drive
dock and CCC4 and some scripts do
the work.
With any luck, youll never put
your multi-site, multi-copy backup
system to use. But if you do, youll
be very glad you went through the
trouble of creating a comprehensive
backup plan! C
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How to simplify overlapping

cloud storage services
BY JOE KISSELL
heres no shortage of choices

for cloud storage, but that
leads to another problem:
how do you decide which services
you truly need, and which les to put
where? If youve signed up for as
many cloud providers as you have
les, its time for an intervention (or
at least a moment of clear-headed
contemplation).
Ill admit it: Im an online storage
junkie. At one time or another Ive
synced les to the cloud using
Amazon Cloud Drive, Amazon S3,
Bitcasa, Box, DollyDrive, Dropbox,
Google Drive, iCloud Drive, Microsoft
OneDrive, SpiderOak, SugarSync,
Wuala and probably a few others
Im forgetting not to mention using
online backups from Backblaze,
CrashPlan and Mozy, and storing
photos with services such as Flickr
and SmugMug. Some of these
services are free (at least for a
limited amount of data) while others
are inexpensive, but inexpensive
times a dozen or more starts to hurt.
Meanwhile, I had the same folders
syncing to three or four services
simultaneously, which slowed down
my Mac, wasted bandwidth and
tested the limits of my ISPs monthly
data transfer allowance.
The challenge was what to do about

it. Just pick one! you may say. Fine,
but if I pick Dropbox, then Google
Docs cant see my online les. If I pick
Google Drive instead, then my iOS
apps that support only iCloud wont
have access. And so on. Companies
like Apple, Google and Microsoft
benet when you stay within their
respective ecosystems, so they tend
to make it easier to use their own
cloud storage services than those
of their competitors. (Microsofts
recent decision to integrate Dropbox
support in its Ofce apps for iOS
supplementing OneDrive is a
welcome exception.)
Even if interoperability werent a
problem, its not as though these
Aggregator. Otixo lets you see and search the les stored
in many cloud services in one place and move les between
providers easily.
various cloud storage services are

otherwise interchangeable. Each
one is different when it comes to
such matters as privacy and security,
saving older versions of les youve
since modied or deleted, APIs for
integration with third-party products,
storage limits and pricing.
Each persons needs and
preferences will vary, but Id like to
offer some tips based on my own
experiences in simplifying cloud
storage.
LOOK FOR BROAD

COMPATIBILITY
Whatever else you may say about
Dropbox, far more apps support it than
any other cloud service, particularly on
iOS. (Its also quite inexpensive, which
doesnt hurt.) Perhaps the scale will tilt
toward iCloud Drive at some point, but
even if that happens for iOS, Dropbox
works on more platforms, including
Android and Linux.
So I use Dropbox as my allpurpose cloud storage provider, and
probably will for the foreseeable future.
If you prefer to use, say, SugarSync
for general purpose cloud storage and
all the apps you care about happen
to support SugarSync natively, thats
terric but the odds are against it.
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ELIMINATE REDUNDANCY
Offers of free (or cheap) storage are
tempting, but dont add an account
just because you can. Each cloud
storage account you use should
serve a unique and useful purpose. I
cancelled my accounts with several
providers because they all duplicated
capabilities I already got elsewhere.
On the other hand, I keep Google
Drive and iCloud Drive, despite
their similarities, because each one
offers features the other doesnt:
namely, integration with the providers
proprietary software.
DONT CONFUSE CLOUD

STORAGE AND CLOUD
BACKUPS
Cloud backup services such as
CrashPlan copy les to distant
servers, and let you retrieve those les
from another computer or an iOS app.
That sounds a lot like cloud storage.
On the other hand, Dropbox stores
deleted les and old versions for 30
days, or up to a year if you pay extra
for Extended Version History
(www.dropbox.com/help/113). That
sounds a lot like cloud backup.
But services that specialise in
storage are generally better at keeping
your les in sync across devices, while
services that specialise in backup

are generally better at long-term
retention and data restoration (and
often have superior encryption, too).
Each service meets a different need,
so I dont consider cloud storage and
cloud backup of a given folder to be
redundant. I use both.
LET EACH SERVICE

STAND ALONE
Suppose you use iCloud Drive
because thats what Keynote works
best with, and Google Drive because
thats what Google Docs works best
with. Fair enough let each service
hold its own documents. If the two
sets of les sync independently with
your Mac (and in most cases they
will), thats even better. But trying to
sync all your documents between
cloud services is usually a waste of
effort (and perhaps, depending on
how you do it, a waste of money).
That brings me to the next point.
USE AGGREGATORS
ONLY AS NEEDED
Providers such as cloudHQ
(cloudhq.net), Otixo (otixo.com)
and ZeroPC (zeropc.com) let you
aggregate cloud storage services
that is, after you connect all
What is this madness? Microsoft letting me access Dropbox in Word for iOS? Wow. Now if only Google Docs
would give me access to iCloud Drive.
Each persons needs

and preferences
will vary, but Id
like to offer some
tips based on my
own experiences
in simplifying cloud
storage.
your accounts, you can see your
documents from every provider in a
single view in the web or an iOS app,
drag les from one service to another
to copy or move them, and in some
cases even sync les between cloud
services.
GO OFF-CLOUD FOR PRIVACY

A handful of cloud storage providers,
including SpiderOak and Wuala,
offer zero-knowledge encryption,
which means your data is encrypted
in such a way that the provider cant
decrypt it without your personal
key, even if the government were to
demand it. Thats great Im a huge
fan of encryption but because my
favourite iOS apps dont support
these services, that severely limits
their utility for me.
So, when privacy is important,
I either encrypt a le myself before
uploading it to Dropbox, or use
a personal cloud product such
as BitTorrent Sync (getsync.com),
ownCloud (owncloud.org) or
Transporter (letransporter.com),
each of which has unique virtues.
As long as my favourite apps insist
on keeping me locked into specic
cloud storage services, I wont be able
to pick a single provider and stick with
it. But Ive already reduced my tally
signicantly and, if more developers
make customer-friendly moves like
the Microsoft-Dropbox partnership,
choosing cloud storage services may
be less of a hassle in the future. C
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Family Sharing on an
iPad, iPhone or Mac
BY LOU HATTERLEY
amily Sharing is a new feature

introduced alongside iOS 8 and
OS X Yosemite. With Family
Sharing, you can share apps, music,
movies, books and more with all
members of your family.
Once youve set up Family Sharing,
you no longer have to buy items
individually. When one person in the
family buys an app, book or content
from the iTunes Store, it is immediately
available to all other members of the
family to download for free. (Usually
App developers/content makers need
to activate Family Sharing for their
digital media. If they dont, you wont
be able to share it.)
Up to six people can use Family
Sharing, and you all pay on the same
credit card, so Family Sharing is ideal
for families that want to combine their
purchases. It is also possible to set
limits for younger family members,
so when a child asks to buy an app
(or other item from the iTunes or
App Store) an alert appears on an
adults phone. If you have this option
activated, the youngster wont be able
to make the purchase until and unless
the family administrator agrees to it.
There are other benets to turning

on Family Sharing too. It integrates
with other Apple services, such as
iCloud and Find My Friends. With
Family Sharing set up you get a group
calendar and reminders lists for your
family, so you can organise events
together. And Find My Friends can
be used to share the location of your
family members, making it easier
than ever to meet up. You can also all
contribute to a shared family photo
album, with all the photos appearing
up-to-date on everybodys device.
HOW TO SET UP FAMILY

SHARING ON AN iPAD OR
iPHONE
The easiest way to set up Family
Sharing is probably on an iPad or
iPhone.
Open the Settings app and scroll
down to the iCloud section. Check
that the correct Apple ID is displayed
at the top the Apple ID from which
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you wish to administrate Family

Sharing and then tap on Set Up
Family Sharing
Youll now see a series of windows
that you breeze through pretty quickly,
but, if youre interested, they briey
describe the features youll be able to
use with Family Sharing, and contain
a few warnings about what exactly
youre letting yourself in for the
things youll be paying for, primarily.
Tap Get Started on the rst screen,
and then Continue on the second
and third ones.
The fourth screen, with the title
Payment method, is very important.
This shows the nal four digits of the
credit/debit card associated with the
Apple ID youre using. This is the
card that will be debited whenever
someone whos part of the family
group buys an app, a song, a lm or
whatever from Apple. Make sure its
the right one before tapping Continue
a third time.
Keep track. Switch on location sharing if you need to know where your familys devices are.
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Family window will show which

card is being used for payments.
Click Continue.
Click the tick box next to I Agree
To The iTunes Store terms and
conditions window and click Agree.
If you want to use Find My Friends
to locate your family, tick the Share
Your Location option and Continue
(otherwise click Not Now and
Continue).
Family Sharing is now set up on
your Mac. The next step is to add
members to it.
Get connected. Add new family members via email.
HOW TO ADD FAMILY

MEMBERS TO FAMILY
SHARING ON A MAC
As well as sharing apps and other

digital content, Family Sharing allows
you to share location data with your
family. On the next screen you decide
whether your own location data will
be shared with other family members;
when they each accept your invitation
to join the family, they will in turn
choose whether to share their location
data. (At this point you may wish to
give rm instructions as to which
option they choose!)
Select Share Your Location or
Not Now.
And thats it: your family unit is set
up. But for the time being its a family
of one. Now you need to add further
family members.
From the main iCloud screen in
Settings, tap Family, then Add Family
Member. You can then add type in the
email address of your family member
(or, if they are in your contacts list, just
start typing their name and then select
the right person when they appear).
The Ask to Buy screen allows
you to stipulate whether the family
member will need to get permission
from you whenever they buy an app or
piece of digital content. In most cases
you will wish to select Ask Permission
for Purchases, although you may let
your spouse have free rein with the
credit card... Tap Next.
Now decide how you wish to bring
Now that you have set up Family

Sharing in OS X, its time to add a
family member. Here is how to add
people to your family:
Open System Preferences > iCloud
and click on Manage Family.
Click Add Family Member.
Enter the email address for the
family member and click Continue.
Conrm you are the Family
Organiser by entering the threedigit CVV security code from the
payment card associated with your
the family member into the fold

either sending an invitation or creating
a password that they can enter right
away. (Our experience suggests that
the invitation only takes about 20
seconds to arrive, so is a convenient
option too, but if youre away from
internet access it may not be suitable.)
And thats pretty much it. The
family member gets their invitation (or
enters their password), accepts (or
declines), then simply selects whether
to share location data. And youre
ready to go with Family Sharing.
HOW TO SET UP FAMILY

SHARING IN MAC OS X
You can also set up Family Sharing via
a Mac again, its pretty simple, but
the only complication is that the Mac
needs to be running Yosemite. Here
is how to set up Family Sharing for all
the members of your family on a Mac.
Open System Preferences >
iCloud. (Tap Sign In and enter your
Apple ID and Password).
Click on Set Up Family.
Click on Continue and Continue
again.
A window will show the account
that you will use to share
purchases from. Double-check that
it is your main Apple ID account
and click Continue.
The Purchases Initiated By Your
Permission. The Ask to Buy screen allows you to stipulate

whether the family member will need to get permission
whenever they wish to make a purchase.
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account. Click Continue.

Enter your Apple ID password and
click Continue.
The person to whom you sent an
email will receive an email invitation
in Mail and Alert in iCloud on their
iOS devices. Here is how they
accept the invitation.
Open Settings on an iOS device.
Tap iCloud > Invitations.
Tap on the Accept button.
Tap Conrm and Continue.
Tap Agree on the terms and
conditions and Agree in the Alert
window.
Tap Share your Location to use
Find My Friends (or Not Right Now).
You are now part of a shared
family, and any purchases you make
are charged to the family organiser,
and can be shared with both
members of the family.
WHO PAYS FOR CONTENT IN

FAMILY SHARING?
Its important to note that the person
who sets up Family Sharing is the
organiser. This is the person in charge,
and they pay for all purchases. So
if you set up Family Sharing for your
partner and family members, your
card is charged for all purchases.
There is also no way for other
family members to pay for Family
Sharing content. Only the person who
originally set up Family Sharing can
pay. Other family members can leave
Family Sharing if they want to pay for
an app, or music, but they can only do
so twice a year. So make sure you are
happy to be paying for all content in
Family Sharing when you set it up. C
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How to pick the best

photo editor for your life
BY LESA SNIDER
rowsing the App Store for

new photo-editing software
can be overwhelming. There
are dozens of image editors and its
difcult to tell which is the right one for
your needs.
If youre already using iPhoto or
Aperture, stick with those programs
until Photos is released it may be all
you need. If, however, youre willing to
pay for more features, here are all the
big (and subtle) differences between
todays top image editors to help you
choose the software thats best for you.
iPHOTO
This image database and nondestructive editor will be replaced by
a new app named Photos in 2015,
though its still one of the easiest

places to import, manage, correct and
share your photos. Instead of editing
your originals, it stores your edit
requests in a database, so you can
always revert to your original.
It works on a variety of le formats,
including raw, and its Adjust panel
lets you adjust exposure, colour
temperature, highlights and shadows
(independently), remove noise and
sharpen. A rudimentary healing brush
lets you remove small stuff, and you
can easily create black-and-whites,
add a sepia (brown) or vintage tint,
and apply a white, black or blurry
effect to a photos edges.
iPhoto lets you share images via
email and social media sites, and
create gorgeous cards, calendars and

photo books you can print the cards
yourself, too, which is handy.
On the downside, theres no way
to edit a certain area in your image
(you cant lighten teeth, for example),
adjustments can be copied and
pasted only onto one other image at a
time, and you cant combine images
or add text. iPhoto also squirrels your
photos away into its own ling system,
so you cant control the directory
structure in which photos are stored.
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP
LIGHTROOM
Like iPhoto, Lightrooms database lets
you import, organise and edit photos
non-destructively, though it uses your
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MYLIO
Launched in late October 2014, this
database-driven, non-destructive
editor is generating a lot of buzz. Mylio
is designed for everyone who takes
pictures (hobbyists and pros) and
manages all your photos iPhone,
Facebook, point-and-shoot, DSLR,
etc. in your own directory structure,
so you can view them side-by-side and
easily search your whole library.
Mylio syncs your photos among
the desktop and mobile devices you
tell it about, so your entire collection is
constantly backed up and accessible.
You can edit, share and export photos
using Mylio, too. Its editing features are
much like Lightroom, though without
the ability to adjust parts of the photo
or create projects.
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP CC
This pro-level pixel pusher is as
powerful (and complex) as it gets.
Aimed at graphic designers, web
designers and pro photographers,
nothing screams digital status like
Photoshop mastery. It supports
many colour modes, including CMYK
(crucial for printing newspapers
and magazines) and ProPhoto RGB
(great for pro photographers), it gives
you access to the individual colour
channels that comprise your image
red, green, blue and so on and you
can create channels for fancy print
effects (spot colours, varnish, metallic
coatings etc).
Photoshop is the original layerbased editor and its layer masks
let you hide the content of a layer in

specic areas (handy for adjusting
parts of your image).
It supports eight-bit or 16-bit editing
(the latter supports more colours) and
lets you alter exposure and colour
using a wide variety of methods it
comes with the full Adobe Camera
Raw plug-in that sports nearly the
exact same panels, sliders and
tools found in Lightroom. You can
create simple and extremely complex
selections around hair and fur that
you can save, and it includes many
intelligent tools that let you realistically
remove and reposition objects.
You can also create vector-based
art with it art thats based on points
and paths instead of pixels either
by converting text, by drawing with
its mighty Pen tool or by using built-in
shapes. You can edit the points
and paths of vector art, and use
its powerful brush engine to create
paintings from scratch. Photoshop
also lets you create 3D objects,
record actions (keystrokes), edit
video (it supports multiple video and
audio tracks), create animated GIFs
and animate layer content using
key-frames.
Photoshop is no database though,
so you cant use it to import or
manage photos; however, you can
do that using Adobe Bridge (separate
download; free with Photoshop
subscription). Adobe Bridge isnt a
database either, so it doesnt store
your edit requests in a catalogue like
iPhoto, Lightroom and Mylio; instead,
its an image browser and batchprocessing tool.
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP
ELEMENTS
List of changes. Lightrooms powerful

Develop module, with a handy list of all your
edits in the History panel.
In motion. Among Photoshops many

superpowers is the ability to apply precise
motion using its Path Blur lter.
Powerful yet user-friendly, this

consumer-level editor is a scaled
down version of Photoshop. Its three
editing modes Quick, Guided and
Expert can accommodate any
skill level (Guided mode includes
step-by-step instructions for many
practical tasks). Elements also lets
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le organisation structure. Designed

for photographers, it sports easy-touse controls for cropping, correcting
exposure, adjusting highlights and
shadows, boosting colour, adding edge
vignettes, reducing noise, correcting
geometric and perspective problems,
performing precise sharpening and
more. You can copy and paste or sync
changes across multiple images, and
it has a never-ending history panel, so
you can always see and undo what
youve done.
Lightroom doesnt support
layer-based editing (think stackable
transparencies), but it has several
tools that can be used to affect
specic areas of your image. You
can remove small objects, duplicate
pixels, create black-and-whites,
create partial colour effects, create
colour tints (split-tones), apply digital
make-up, lighten teeth and apply
changes in a linear or radial fashion,
or paint them on by hand.
It also lets you create pro-level
photo books, printing templates,
slideshows and simple web galleries,
plus you can create presets for nearly
everything you do in the program
(handy for exporting images at
certain sizes with watermarks and for
uploading to social media sites such
as Facebook).
Apples Aperture is nearly identical
and, though itll also be replaced
by Photos, dont switch to another
program yet youll lose the ability
to undo your Aperture edits. Instead,
hang tight until Photos is released.
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Missing piece. The puzzle effect applied

in Elements Guided mode, which has been
manipulated further in Expert mode.
you create prints, books, cards and

calendars (though the templates are
lame), Facebook cover images etc.
and easily share images via email
and social media sites. Its database
component, the Elements Organizer,
lets you import and organise
images, as well as edit photos nondestructively it doesnt store edit
requests, it merely lets you save
multiple versions of the same image
and tracks the copies. Elements
supports layers and layer masks, and
includes tools that you can use to
remove and reposition objects, though
it miraculously includes Photoshops
powerful Rene Edge dialogue box for
selecting hair and fur. (It also includes
a scaled-down version of the Adobe
Camera Raw plug-in.)
On the downside, Elements only
supports RGB colour mode; it doesnt
let you access individual colour
channels, or edit 16-bit les. You can
Powerful. The incredibly powerful Pixelmator

has a slew of slick effects, like the Circle
Splash shown here.
create text, though formatting options

are extremely limited, and while you
can create vector-based art using
its shape tools, you cant edit points
and paths, nor is there a Pen tool with
which you can draw freehand.
Elements includes many
Photoshop lters, including the
powerful Liquify for extreme pixel
pushing and subject reshaping, but
lacks the Blur Gallery and the ability to
use Smart Filters.
PIXELMATOR
Pixelmator is a nice alternative to both
Photoshop and Elements, as it has
similar functionality, but no database
component. It doesnt support CMYK
mode (save through soft-proong)
though it does work in ProPhoto RGB
and sRGB, and it supports eight- and
Multiple places. Mylio is available on a range of devices.
16-bit editing, layers and layer masks.

You can push a photo through text
and create selections (though it
doesnt have anything like the Rene
Edge dialogue box to help you select
hair or fur). You can correct exposure
and colour (it has both Levels and
Curves adjustments), draw vectorbased art freehand (you can edit the
individual points and paths, too),
create text (with limited formatting)
and perform some pixel-pushing
through Warp, Bump and Pinch tools.
You can also remove and duplicate
objects, apply a slew of preset effects
(think lters), create paintings and
easily share images via email or social
media sites.
FINAL THOUGHTS
As you can see, there are many
image editors to choose from
depending on your needs. If youre
into scrapbooking, try Photoshop
Elements or Pixelmator. Engineers,
high-end retouchers, restoration
artists, web professionals, ne artists
and die-hard graphics gurus need
Photoshop CC. Everyone else may be
best served by embracing Lightroom
(or Apples forthcoming Photos
app) as their organisational, image
improvement and project creation tool.
Lastly, everyone should keep
an eye on Mylio, as it just may be
the photo management tool of our
dreams. Until next time, may the
creative force be with you all. C
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The many superpowers

of Apples Preview app
BY LESA SNIDER
pples Preview app,

preinstalled on every Mac
for years, is one of the most
underused programs ever. Far from
being an image preview app, as
its name implies, you can use it to
convert le formats, grab a frame from
a movie, learn the size of a webbased image, sort a folder of images,
remove backgrounds and more.
CONVERT FILE FORMATS

To get a handle on Previews abilities,
consider the le formats it can open
and manipulate. How is this exciting?
Let us count the ways. You can
convert a PDF le to a pixel-based
format for printing (say, if youve got
a PDF that refuses to print) or for
posting on the web (say, a JPEG,
GIF or PNG). You can convert image
les to PDF (say, for emailing a
receipt to someone) or, perhaps most
amazingly, convert Adobe Illustrator
or legacy EPS les to PDF format
without the need for Illustrator.

To do it, open the le in Preview,
choose File > Export and then select
a new le format. If the original is a
vector-based logo or illustration, the
resulting PDF will also be vectorbased (meaning you can enlarge it
without losing quality). Remarkably,
Previews support of native Photoshop
(PSD) and Illustrator (AI) les means
that you can send either of these
native le formats to anyone using
a Mac and they can use Preview to
open and print them.
a new le containing the frame from

your movie. You can then save the le
in whatever format you need.
REMOVE A BACKGROUND
To quickly remove the background
behind an object or logo (say, to place
the object over a new background),
activate Previews Instant Alpha tool
GRAB A FRAME FROM

A MOVIE
If QuickTime Player can play the
movie, you can capture a frame from
it. Heres how: just pause the movie
at the point you want to capture the
frame by pressing the spacebar and
then press c-C to copy it to your
clipboard. In Preview, choose File >
New from Clipboard, and it creates
More options. Previews Export dialogue box

hides all but the most common le formats.
To see the full list, hold down the Option key
when clicking the Format menu in the Export
dialogue box.
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COPY A PORTION OF AN
IMAGE
To copy a portion of an image, open it
in Preview and simply click and drag
to draw a selection rectangle atop
the image. Next, press c-C to copy
it to your clipboard, then press c-N
to create a new document containing
the contents of the clipboard. To
make a selection from its centre
outward (instead of corner to corner),
hold down the Option key before or
during the drag. Add the Shift key to
constrain the selection to a square.
QUICKLY SEE THE SIZE OF

A WEBSITE IMAGE
Heres a quick way to save an image
from a website, and determine its
exact dimensions: just drag it directly
from the webpage onto the Preview
icon in your Macs Dock. Next, choose
Tools > Show Inspector (or press c-I)
to summon a panel that shows its
size, le format etc.
les will be left intact, but copies

will appear in your sorting folders.
When youre done, delete the
originals folder.
If your images dont appear in the
sidebar in the order you prefer, you
can either drag them up and down
to reorder them, or Control-click the
white space in the drawer and use the
resulting menu to sort by name, path,
date, size or kind. You can also drag
a thumbnail to the Trash icon to delete
the original le, or drag it onto the
Photoshop icon in your Dock to open
it in that program.
ADJUST COLOUR AND

EXPOSURE
In Yosemite, Preview sports an Adjust
Color panel, which is similar to the
controls in iPhotos Adjustments panel
in Edit mode. To use it, open a photo
and then click the Markup Toolbar
icon to display all the markup tools (it
looks like a toolbox). In the toolbar that
appears, click the Adjust Color icon (it
looks like a pyramid or prism).
The Auto Levels button improves
most images by adjusting brightness
levels; however, there are also
individual sliders to adjust Exposure,
Contrast, Highlights, Shadows,
Saturation, Temperature, Tint,
Sharpness or add a Sepia colour.
QUICKLY SORT A FOLDER OF

IMAGES
Previews sidebar is a great tool for
sorting images before you commit
to importing them into your imageediting app (say, iPhoto). For example,
if your friend hands you a memory
stick of 100 images, make three
folders on your desktop named
originals, keep and toss. Drag
the les from the memory stick into
the originals folder and open them in
Preview. Next, drag thumbnails from
Previews sidebar into the appropriate
folder (keep or toss). The original
ADD ANNOTATIONS
Peek inside the Tools > Annotate
menu and youll spot several ways
to draw attention to areas in a
document or image. As with previous
versions, you can draw rectangles,
ovals, lines, arrows, speech bubbles
and add text. You can additionally
highlight, underline or strike through
existing text.
Preview 8 introduces ve new
annotation tools: Star, Polygon, Sketch,
Mask and Loupe. Both the Star and
Polygon tools are self-explanatory.
Once you click on your document
to add the shape, just drag the tiny,
round green handle that appears in a
circular motion to specify the shapes
number of sides (the Star tool sports a
second green handle used to control
side length). The Sketch tool lets
you add freehand squiggles. If they
resemble a shape, Preview autoconverts them (oval-shaped squiggles
become ovals, for example). If youd
prefer to leave your original squiggle
as is, you can revert to it using the
oating toolbar that appears.
Most exciting in the new annotation
tool line-up are the Mask and Loupe
tools. Each is accessible in the Tools
> Annotate menu and in the Markup
toolbars Shape menu. The Mask tool
lets you highlight an area(s) by adding
a mask that darkens everything
outside of it, which also makes for a
slick photo effect.
The Loupe tool lets you magnify
a certain spot with a resizable,
stackable loupe. Once you add a
loupe, you can increase or decrease
its magnication level by dragging
the round green handle that appears
along its perimeter. You can also stack
multiple loupe effects to magnify an
area thats already magnied.
SIGN DOCUMENTS
Alter it. To quickly adjust an image, try using

Previews new Adjust Color panel.
Adding your signature to documents

is far easier, too. Open the Markup
toolbar by clicking the toolbox icon
at the upper right, and then click
the Signature tool (it looks like a tiny
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by clicking its icon in the toolbar

(it looks like a magic wand). Next,
click and drag atop the background;
if you dont see the Instant Alpha
tool, click the Markup Toolbar icon
to display all the mark-up tools (it
looks like a toolbox). As you click
and drag atop the background, your
selection appears as a pink overlay
that indicates the areas that will be
removed.
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receipts), choose View > Thumbnails

and then select the thumbnails of the
pages you want to rotate. Next, click
the Rotate button in the toolbar or
choose Tools > Rotate Left or Tools >
Rotate Right.
CROP A PDF
Sign for it. You can capture a signature with

your trackpad or iSight camera (top). Once
your signature is captured, it appears as a
menu item of the Sign tool for easy access
(bottom).
signature). Either draw your signature

using your trackpad or mouse or
use your Macs iSight camera to
photograph a signature youve
scribed onto white paper. Either way,
Preview captures your signature with
transparency, so you can gracefully
plop it atop any document or image
(say, for a quick watermark).
REDUCE PDF FILE SIZE

To slim the le size of any PDF (by
reducing image quality), choose File
> Export. In the resulting dialogue
box, choose PDF from the Format
menu and then choose Reduce File
Size from the Quartz Filter menu. Click
Save and call it done.
MERGE MULTIPLE FILES INTO

ONE PDF
Preview can easily merge multiple les
into a single PDF (say, to combine
scanned documents or to combine
a PDF with an image). To do it, open
the rst PDF or image, choose View
> Thumbnails and then drag other
les single or multiple pages of
any dimensions from the desktop
onto the thumbnail sidebar. Drag
thumbnails to reorder pages within
your newly combined PDF and then
save the le.
ROTATE PAGES IN A PDF

To rotate a single page within a
multi-page PDF (handy for scanned
If a page in your PDF has extra stuff

around it say, registration or crop
marks you can use the Rectangular
Selection tool to crop it. Open the
Markup toolbar, click the Rectangular
Selection tool, and draw a selection
around the area you want to keep.
Next, choose Tools > Crop (or
press c-K to commit the crop). To
crop multiple pages, choose View
> Thumbnails and c- or Shift-click
to select multiple thumbnails before
committing the crop. To crop all
pages, press c-A to select them
before committing the crop. To draw a
more accurate selection for cropping,
choose Tools > Show Inspector to
open the Inspector window, click the
Crop icon (it looks like an angled
comb), and enter the location and size
of the desired crop.
press c-N to create a new document

in Preview and all the sizes of the
applications icon instantly appear as
individual pages with transparency.
To save a specic size as a new le,
select the appropriate thumbnail and
choose File > Export. To preserve
the icons transparent background,
choose PNG or TIFF for the le format
in the resulting dialogue box.
SOFT PROOF YOUR PRINT

Preview can also show you how a
document will print on a certain printer,
which is useful for seeing how a
colour document will print on a blackand-white printer or how a vibrant
image will look on a commercial
press. Open the le and choose View
> Soft Proof with Prole and in the
dialogue box that appears choose a
standard prole such as Generic Gray,
Generic CMYK or a prole specic to
your printer.
As you can see, Preview is mighty
powerful, though perhaps the most
difcult thing is remembering to use it!
Until next time, may the creative force
be with you all. C
PASSWORD-PROTECT A PDF
OR IMAGE
To prevent a PDF or image from being
opened, copied from or printed, try
password-protecting it. Open the
le and choose File > Export, and in
the resulting dialogue box choose
PDF from the Format menu. Next,
enable the Encrypt checkbox, enter
a password into the resulting eld
and click Save. Be sure to rename
or change the location of your
newly protected PDF to keep from
overwriting your original!
EXTRACT AN APPLICATION
ICON
Preview can extract several sizes of
an applications icon as images. First,
select the application wherever it lives
in the Finder (say, in your Applications
or Downloads folder) and then press
c-C to copy it to your clipboard. Next,
Icons. To extract an apps icon, just select the

app and press c-C (top). When you create a new
document in Preview, the icon instantly appears at
multiple sizes with transparency (bottom).
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HOW TO MAKE COPIES

OF ALL YOUR OLD
CAMERA'S PICTURES
Ive had a number of digital

cameras over the years and Im
interested in retrieving all the
images shot with a particular one.
Any suggestions how I might nd
them?
Kevin Kinkaid
I have two, in fact. The rst is to open
iPhoto, choose File > New Smart
Album and in the sheet that appears
create a condition that reads Any
Text Contains [camera model], where
the last entry is the model iPhoto
recognises for your camera. (If youre
not sure how iPhoto identies your
camera, just select an image taken
with it and click the Info button at the
bottom-right of the iPhoto window. In
the resulting Info pane look near the
top for the model number.)
This is the easy way to do it.
However, it may not be the best way.
When I tried this with images taken
with an old Nikon Coolpix 950, iPhoto

produced not only the original images,
but some thumbnails as well. (The
blame for this can be laid at my feet as
I apparently performed some import
gooness years ago and cluttered up
my iPhoto library with these things.)
One way to eliminate this would
be to additionally lter images by
their size. If I set the bar high enough,
none of thumbnails would appear.
Regrettably, iPhotos smart albums
dont let you use size as a condition.
Automator, however, does. And
thats the other option. Launch
Automator and from the workow
template select Workow and click
Choose.
In the Finder, navigate to your
iPhoto Library archive (found in
youruserfolder/Pictures, by default),
Control-click (right-click) on it and
choose Show Package Contents. From
within this folder drag the Masters
folder into the Automator workow
area. This will create a Get Specied
Finder Items action. While still in the
Finder create a new folder and call it
Copied Images.
In Automator select Files & Folders
from the Library pane and drag the
following actions into the workow area:
Get Folder Contents, Filter Finder
Items and Copy Finder Items. In the
Get Folder Contents action enable
the Repeat for each subfolder found
option.
For the Filter Finder Items action
create one condition that reads Any
content contains [camera model]
(again, entering your camera model).
Click the plus (+) button to the right
and create another condition that
reads Size is greater than 750KB.
This should eliminate any thumbnails.
Congure this action to read All of the
following are true.
Finally, move back to the Finder
and drag the Copied Images folder
you created to the To pop-up menu
found in the last action.
You can save the workow, but if
this is a one-shot deal, click the Run
button at the top of the window. The

workow will copy all the larger images
taken with that particular camera into
your Copied Images folder.
HOW TO KEEP iCLOUD

KEYCHAIN FROM
ADDING OLD EMAIL
ACCOUNTS
Since I upgraded to Yosemite, the

Mail app has started asking for
passwords for accounts that I no
longer use. I didnt add them when
I rst set up Yosemite. Whats
going on?
Carrie Lane
iCloud Keychain is whats going
on. At one time you added these
accounts to another device you own.
When you enabled iCloud Keychain
on that device, it made note of these
accounts. When you then set up
Yosemite and enabled iCloud Keychain
on your Mac, iCloud thinking it was
doing you a favour added those old
accounts. Regrettably theres no way
to edit out this kind of thing in iCloud
Keychain where you can dictate
Sync this one, but not that one. But
hope isnt entirely lost.
As I suggest in the next question,
you can often put iCloud Keychain
to rights by switching it off on every
device associated with it, locating the
device that has just the information you
want synced, conguring iCloud on
that device, enabling iCloud Keychain
on that device and then enabling it
on your other devices. iCloud should
update all your devices with the
information from the master device.
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HELP
But email accounts are trickier

because sometimes we want one
collection of accounts on Device A
and a different collection on Device B.
(When Device A is your personal Mac
and Device B is your Mac at work,
for example.) The Internet Accounts
system preference provides a way to
deal with this.
Open it up, select an account that
you dont want to use on your Mac
and click the minus () button at the
bottom of the accounts pane. A sheet
will appear that offers three options
Remove From All, Cancel and Turn Off
Account. Click Turn Off Account and
you should see no evidence of this
account in the future. If, for one reason
or another, that doesnt work, you can
simply disable any options the account
has switch off Mail, Contacts and
Calendars, for instance.
WHAT TO DO WHEN
iCLOUD KEYCHAIN
FAILS TO SYNC
When upgrading to OS X Yosemite

on my iMac I took your advice and
installed it on an external drive. I
like it so far, but even though Ive
switched on and veried Keychain
in the iCloud system preference,
Safari doesnt know about my
previously saved passwords. When
I launch Safari, open its preferences
and click on the Passwords tab, the
area below is empty. Is there some
le I need to copy from Mavericks
to make this work?
David Collins
You neednt do that. Rather, you just
have to give iCloud Keychain a not-sosubtle nudge. Apple outlines the steps
for doing so in its Get Help Using
iCloud Keychain (support.apple.com/
en-au/HT203783) document.
What Apple suggests is that you
switch off iCloud Keychain on all
devices that use it. Then, gure out
which of your devices has the most
up-to-date list of your passwords and
switch on Keychain for that device.
Shake your
device. This
can easily
retrieve a
deleted
message.
And nally, turn on iCloud Keychain

for all your other devices. This
should cause Safari to produce the
passwords youre looking for.
As someone whos dealt with this
issue (and one who also has more
than a handful of devices that use
iCloud Keychain) I might suggest
that you rst try a shorter route. And
that would be to switch off Keychain
on your Yosemite drive, restart your
Mac from the Mavericks drive, switch
Keychain off and on, switch back
to your Yosemite drive and enabled
Keychain there.
If youre successful (as I have been)
youve saved I-dont-know-how-many
trips to Settings/System Preferences
on your other devices and countless
keystrokes as you re-enter your
password and verify iCloud Keychain
on another device.
ONE EMAIL TIP EVERY

MAC USER SHOULD
KNOW
I upgraded my iPad mini to iOS 8

and suddenly an accidental left
swipe mysteriously wipes out an
email message. A gentle leftswipe displays More, Flag and
Trash options, but a quicker swipe
produces a brief narrow red line
and poof! the message is gone into
cyberspace. Can you help?
Nancy Hilton
I can. As youve rightly deduced, this is
a behaviour introduced with iOS 8 and
it works across iPads, iPhones and
iPod touches. It was a notion Apple
introduced with the idea that its an
easy way to quickly delete messages.
The problem is that if youre a little
too frisky in your swiping you can
accidentally delete messages.
For IMAP accounts these messages

should appear in the Trash folder of
the associated account. Just navigate
back to that folder and move the
messages back to the Inbox. But thats
tedious when theres an easier way.
Shake it.
And by it I mean your iPad (or
iPhone or iPod touch). This is the
undo gesture that far too many
of us forget about. When youve
inadvertently deleted a message,
give your iPad a vigorous shake
and an Undo Trash window should
appear. Tap Undo and the message
will reappear. (I say should because
while this works very well with my
iPhone, it can be hit-or-miss on my
iPad Air.)
But hold the darned phone (or
iPad)! I hear protested. Within the
Mail, Contacts, Calendar setting
theres an Ask Before Deleting switch.
Surely if you enable that switch youll
be queried before another message
vanishes!
Ah, but no. This switch applies
only to those situations where you
tap a message to reveal it and then
tap on the Trash icon at the bottom
of the screen. It wont interfere with
swipe-deletions.
Likewise, although you can tap
Swipe Options in the Mail, Contacts,
Calendars setting; tap Swipe Left; and
then tap None; this doesnt prevent
the rapid swipe gesture from deleting
messages. It only allows you to switch
the Flag option on or off.
HOW TO RESTORE A
MISSING RECOVERY
PARTITION
I installed a clean copy of Yosemite

on an external hard drive, which I
cloned to another Mac using the
demo of Carbon Copy Cloner.
When trying to troubleshoot
something on that Mac I
discovered that it had no recovery
partition. Is there any way I can
create one?
Kai Peterson
HELP
a sheet will appear that explains

something about the necessity of
the recovery partition. If youd like to
install it, just click the Create Recovery
HD button at the bottom of the sheet.
Carbon Copy Cloner will unmount the

volume, resize the main partition to
make room for the recovery partition,
install the necessary software and then
remount the volume. C
FEBRUARY 2015
www.macworld.com.au
There is. Before I walk through it I

should tell you that this is expected
behaviour. When Carbon Copy Cloner
4 clones a bootable drive to another
drive, it doesnt create a recovery
partition in the same way that the OS
X installer does. Instead, it creates an
archive of it and places the archive
here: /Library/Application Support/
com.bombich.ccc.
This archive provides you with the
means to install a recovery partition
on the drive and you can do it while
booted from that drive. Just launch
Carbon Copy Cloner again, click Show
Sidebar in the toolbar and select the
affected drive in the Volumes list.
Information about it will appear to
the right.
Click the Recovery HD button
at the bottom of the window and
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GROUP TEST
Music adapters
Unfortunately, not all speakers offer wireless connectivity. But that can change
with the aid of an adapter. ADAM TURNER takes a look at four options.
Kaiser Baas
SoundShift
D-Link DCH-M225
Wi-Fi audio extender
Playing music wirelessly via DLNA or Apples AirPlay, Kaiser

Baas SoundShift connects to your home Wi-Fi network or
creates its own.
The palm-sized SoundShift is inconspicuous enough to
hide out of the way in hard-to-reach places. Its powered
via a micro-USB port using the supplied 5V adapter. The
SoundShift features both a rear 3.5mm AUX output jack and
a SP/DIF digital optical output for connecting to powered
speakers, as none of the music adapters in this bunch feature
a built-in amplier.
The SoundShift supports 802.11n Wi-Fi networks, but only
at 2.4GHz. Once connected, it acts as an AirPlay speaker for
easy streaming from iGadgets and computers running iTunes.
Alternatively, you can use it as a DLNA speaker and stream
music from a wide range of mobile and desktop apps. This
is handy if youre catering to the needs of a blended home
rather than an Apple-only environment.
You can install several SoundShifts around your home, all
linked to your Wi-Fi network, but its not a multi-room audio
system and you cant stream the same song to multiple
SoundShifts in sync.
Like Kaiser Baas SoundShift, this D-Link audio extender

supports 802.11n Wi-Fi networks at 2.4GHz, but not 5GHz.
This limitation wont bother some people, but if your wireless
network tends to choke when someone turns on the
microwave oven then youre likely to run into trouble streaming
music on the 2.4GHz band and you should consider
upgrading to a dual-band 2.4/5GHz wireless network.
Wireless setup is easy, as the D-Link supports WPS, which
lets you connect to a Wi-Fi network with the press of a button
if your wireless router supports it (or else you can congure it
manually). As a bonus, the D-Link can also act as a 2.4GHz
Wi-Fi range extender, helping boost your wireless network to
reduce coverage black spots around your home (it creates a
second network with -EXT added to the name).
If you dont have a home Wi-Fi network, the D-Link can
generate its own network, but theres no Ethernet port so you
cant connect it to your broadband modem and offer wireless
internet access.
The D-Link is designed to hang from a power socket, but
its much less bulky than the Netgear and Apples early AirPort
Expresses. Theres a 3.5mm AUX jack on the bottom for
connecting to powered speakers, but no digital audio output.
Bottom line. If you dont have a home Wi-Fi network the

SoundShift can generate a Wi-Fi hotspot so you can connect
your devices. Theres no built-in Ethernet port, so you cant
connect the SoundShift to your broadband modem and offer
wireless internet access throughout your home. Nor can it act
as a Wi-Fi extender.
$99.95 / KAISER BAAS

www.kaiserbaas.com.au
Bottom line. Supporting AirPlay and DLNA streaming,

D-Links Wi-Fi music adapter is also a Wi-Fi extender. You
can play different
songs to different
D-Link adapters
using different
apps or devices,
but its not a
multi-room audio
system and you
cant stream the
same song to
multiple adapters
in sync.
$79.95 / D-LINK
www.dlink.com.au
PROS AirPlay; DLNA
PROS AirPlay; DLNA; Wi-Fi extender
CONS No 5GHz; no Wi-Fi extender
CONS No 5GHz; no digital output
OUTSTANDING
VERY GOOD
If your microwave oven cripples your 2.4GHz Wi-Fi network

then 5GHz is a wise investment. This Netgear is a dual-band
Wi-Fi extender, helping both your 2.4GHz and 5GHz networks
reach the far corners of your home.
The Netgear generates two new networks, using the
same names as your current networks but adding _2GEXT
and _5GEXT. Netgear recommends only connecting to the
extended networks when you cant get adequate coverage
from your primary networks but regularly switching between
them can become a hassle.
Theres also an Ethernet port for connecting devices like
internet-enabled home entertainment gear, which may not
support Wi-Fi. You cant use this Ethernet port to plug the
Netgear directly into your broadband modem/router to create
a Wi-Fi network, you can only extend an existing Wi-Fi network.
The Netgear features a 3.5mm AUX jack for connecting
to powered speakers, but not a digital audio output. Its
designed to support blended households offering AirPlay
stream to iGadget owners and DLNA streaming to others. It
supports multi-room audio via AirPlay and our music stayed
in sync when streaming from iTunes on a Mac to two Netgear
extenders, but not when we used a mix of Netgear and Apple
extenders.
Youll also nd a USB port on the Netgear for connecting
up a printer, with AirPrint support, so you can print from your
iGadgets. Theres no support for attaching a USB hard drive
to share on your home network.
Unfortunately, the
Netgear is a bulky unit that
can make it impractical for
some tight spaces, even if
you use the optional short
power cable rather than
hanging it directly from a
power socket.
FLAWED
UNACCEPTABLE
Apple AirPort Express

The original AirPort Express was a bulky unit that hung from
a power socket, but the new models are palm-sized boxes
that come with a power cable similar to the third-generation
Apple TV making them easy to install in hard-to-reach
locations.
You can connect the AirPort Express to your broadband
modem/router via Ethernet to create a home Wi-Fi network,
or else it can join your existing Wi-Fi networks to extend the
signal to the far reaches of your home. When acting as a
Wi-Fi extender, it doesnt alter the network names, making it
easier to roam between wireless base stations as you move
around your home.
There are two Ethernet ports on the back, both of which
can supply internet access when the AirPort Express is
linked to your Wi-Fi network. Alongside them is a USB port
for connecting a printer or USB storage device to your home
network. Theres also a combination analogue/digital 3.5mm
audio jack for connecting to powered speakers.
Once its connected to your home network, the AirPort
Express appears as an AirPlay speaker to iGadgets and
iTunes running on a Mac or PC (as do any Apple TV boxes
on your network). Theres multi-room audio support when
streaming from iTunes on a computer, letting you play the
same song in sync around your home. Alternatively, you
can play different songs to different speakers using different
devices.
As youd expect from Apple theres no support for DLNA
streaming, which is frustrating, but you will nd unofcial
AirPlay support built into a range of Android music apps.
Bottom line. Apples AirPort Express can act as the heart of
your Wi-Fi network, or else it can extend both your 2.4GHz
and 5GHz networks to deal with black spots around your
home. C
Bottom line. A Wi-Fi

booster that extends two
networks simultaneously,
the Netgear offers a step
up in reliability.
$149 / NETGEAR
www.netgear.com.au
$119 / APPLE
www.apple.com/au
PROS AirPlay; DLNA; Ethernet; dual-band Wi-Fi extender
PROS AirPlay; Ethernet; dual-band Wi-Fi extender
CONS No digital output
CONS No DLNA
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Netgear WN3500RP
Dual Band Wi-Fi
Range Extender
GOOD
60
REVIEWS
Tile
Crowdfunded device that will help you nd your keys.
ile was crowdfunded back in

2013 by thousands of backers
who felt that this was the kind
of device that could properly track
their stuff.
Tile costs US$25 a piece (with
discounts for multi-tile packs) and is
about as big as a matchbook. You
will have to buy more than one Tile
if you plan to track multiple things. It
has a keyring hole so you can easily
attach it to your keys or you can stick
it to things with the included adhesive
square. It's a tad on the thick side
and though it isnt bulky, its still a
signicant addition to your keychain,
or wherever you put it. Its also water
resistant and constructed out of
durable material, so you dont have to
worry about it falling apart.
Tile is helpful for people who tend to
misplace common things, like keys or
a wallet. If you do lose something with
a Tile attached to it, you can ping it via
Bluetooth and it will play an adorable
chiptune melody until you conrmed
that you have found it. If its too far
out of range, you can then use the
Community Find feature available within
the app to locate it. Since Tile doesnt
have GPS tracking built-in, it relies on
other users with the Tile app to locate
your missing square. That location
information is then registered as the
last place it was seen. Its like a virtual

lost and found and you dont have to
be a Tile user to help out others.
The good news is that all of Tile's
features work well, save for a few
awkward times that the Tile app couldnt
gure out that my keys were right next
to my phone. Tiles Bluetooth range
extends up to 30 metres and, as long
as other Tile users have Bluetooth on,
youll be able to track where your stuff
is. The tunes that Tile emits are loud
enough to hear in a noisy house, too.
Heres the bad part. Instead of
providing a user-replaceable battery,
Tile is completely sealed. This is what
supposedly makes it resistant to water,
but since theres no way to replace any
of its innards on your own, youll have
to buy another one when the device
eventually dies. Tile promises that the
device will last for an entire year, and
the company says its working on a
renewal program of sorts to offer new
Tiles at a discounted price, but that
means theres still an annual upkeep
fee that youll have to consider.
Theres also the question of
whether remembering to trade in your
Tile on an annual basis is actually
worth the utility of the device. Sure,
you may misplace your keys every
once in a while, but is that worth it?
Isnt the point of Tile not to worry
if your life gets so busy that you

misplace things? How do they expect
busy worker bees to remember to
trade in their Tile for a new one on top
of everything else in their lives?
The other issue is that Tiles
Community Find feature will only work
as intended in an area with lots of
other Tile users. It doesnt seem to me
that itd work well beyond big cities.
Bottom line. I can see Tile being a
really handy device for travellers who
want to track lost luggage or as a
cheaper alternative to tracking a pet
around town, but I cant get behind
paying US$25 a year or more for a
device that helps me realise I'm always
leaving my keys in the kitchen. C
FLORENCE ION
TILE
www.thetileapp.com
PROS Water resistant and durable, so you don't have to
worry about weather killing it; small enough that it ts
in most places
CONS Battery isn't user-replaceable; Community Find
relies on a large user base, which some areas may not
have
US$25 + SHIPPING
REVIEWS
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Nikon D3300
Solid compact DSLR for beginner and pro alike.
he Nikon D3300 offers a

pleasing set of features for
newbies as well as power
users, especially given its relatively
low price and compact size.
Right out of the box, the D3300
distinguishes itself by feeling like a
premium product. This is especially
evident in the D3300s buttons, power
switch, scroll wheel and 360-degree
dial. Everything moves smoothly, like
butter. Even the shutter mechanism
sounds comparatively quiet and
smooth.
The D3300s design is easy to
learn and pleasant to use. My ngers
could easily, almost blindly, nd their
way around the camera, with a comfy
spot for my thumb to rest at the upperright corner.
On top of the camera sits a
360-degree dial with the usual settings
(program, shutter priority, aperture
priority, auto and manual modes) as
well as presets for Auto (with and
without ash), portrait, landscape,
sports, child, sports, macro and night
portrait.
The D3300 is a capable camera
that neither requires training wheels nor
constrains you as you get more familiar
with its operation. The eight-way rocker
at the back of the camera (with a
centred OK button) made quick work
of navigating through menu options. At
the left of the bright, high-resolution 3in
LCD sits another ve buttons, most of
which are self-explanatory.
The D3300s on-screen display is

very visual, with a touch of old-school
skeuomorphic graphics for depicting
shutter speed, aperture and ISO. The
visuals dont get in the way much
and they provide a clean at-a-glance
organisation to what could easily
become a cluttered-looking display.
I liked that visual display, but some
of these options along with more
advanced choices are built into the
tabbed shooting menu, too.
The D3300 has 11-point autofocus, which is decent but at times
limited my options when composing
shots. If youve ever tried more, this
could seem more constraining than
youd expect. Once you enable
the option in the cameras menus,
changing auto-focus points is simple
and fast, thanks to the aforementioned
rocker switch.
Entering Live View mode for
shooting is simple: tap a dedicated
button, just above the rocker and
below the thumb rest. The rocker
makes it reasonably fast and easy
to adjust focus in Live View, since
you can move the focus point on an
angle, too. While we had a sense the
focus locked in quickly, it was still
sluggish enough that you may miss
that celebratory reaction shot if youre
depending upon split-second focus
speed.
The D3300s capture speed is ve
frames per second competitive for
this class of cameras. Thats enough
for many fast-moving environments,

such as sporting events.
At ISO 200, the D3300s images
looked very good. In P mode, the
camera tended to meter in a way that
it captured slightly darker exposures
than on some of its competitors.
Nonetheless, images looked great,
with pleasing and accurate colours
and sharp detail when viewed at 100
percent. While Nikon is known for
capturing images with minimal noise
at high ISOs, beware just how far
youll want to push this model. As with
other cameras in this class, images
looked good up to ISO 800. By ISO
1600 youd start seeing visible noise,
and ISO 3200 and beyond became
soft and noisy. Nikon rates its battery
for about 600 shots.
Bottom line. The D3300 is a strong
choice for those looking to graduate
into the realm of digital SLRs without
breaking their wallets, yet it comes
with enough advanced features to
keep budding enthusiasts engaged. C
MELISSA PERENSON
JB HI-FI
www.jbhifhi.com.au
PROS Friendly interface; smooth operation
CONS Program mode tends to produce darker exposures
$498 (BODY ONLY)
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Logitech Keys-to-Go
A great iPad keyboard that doesn't lock you into a case.
he Logitech Keys-to-Go
is compact, covered in a
spill-resistant fabric, boasts
three months' battery life and most
intriguingly lacks any method for
connecting itself to your iPad. Up
until this point, I have only ever used
a keyboard that doubled as a stand,
or completely enclosed my iPad in a
folio-type housing, but I appreciate
how Keys-To-Go lets me use any case
I want or no case at all.
As with the rest of Logitechs lineup,
the top row of the Keys-To-Go keyboard
offers shortcut keys for common iOS
tasks. With the press of a button you
can return to the home screen, open
Spotlight, launch Siri, activate the fast
app-switching view, take a screenshot,
control media playback and adjust your
iPads volume.
In the top-right corner of the
keyboard is a button with a battery
icon on it. Pressing it causes the small
LED to light up, indicating the current
level of the keyboards battery. I
appreciate the ability to quickly identify
if the keyboard needs to be charged,
especially if Im about to head to a

coffee shop or on a business trip.
But I desperately miss the lock key,
which is normally located in the same
spot on other Logitech keyboards.
Im constantly locking my iPad when
I walk away from my desk, and I
enjoyed having a keyboard shortcut to
accomplish this. Granted, reaching up
and pressing the Sleep button on my
iPad takes minimal effort on my part.
Its retraining my brain to quit reaching
for the key and expecting the same
result thats challenging.
In testing, I was able to regularly
transition from my MacBook Airs
keyboard to the Keys-To-Go without
any major learning curve. The
keyboards overall footprint measures
at 24.2cm x 13.7cm x 0.6cm. What
does that mean to you? The outer
keys such as Shift, Delete and Return
have seen the biggest reduction in
overall size, with the rest of the keys
remaining nearly full-size.
Im not sure if its due to the
material used to cover the keyboard,
or the way the keys are engineered
underneath it, but this thing is

astonishingly quiet. No matter how
hard I would press a key, I was only
ever able to elicit a subdued click
from the keyboard.
However, there is one problem
thats likely to drive you as crazy as it
did me. When using the keyboard on
a smooth surface, such as a nished
wood desk or table, it moves. (I dont
have a glass table, but I imagine the
problem would be present there as
well.) It wiggles just enough to throw
off your typing, forcing you to stop
and adjust the keyboard or move your
hands to the correct keys. Its an everso-slight movement, but one that over
time becomes increasingly annoying.
When resting the keyboard on
my lap, or an unnished surface, the
problem vanished. I would love to see
small feet added to the corners to
eliminate the issue.
Bottom line. For users of either
size iPad or even an iPhone 6 Plus,
the Keys-To-Go is a solid choice. Not
only does it ditch the requirement to
replace (or remove) the case on your
device, but its also lightweight, super
portable, quiet and offers a familiar
typing experience. The wiggling issue
I experienced on a slick surface can
be easily remedied with a little
ingenuity. C
JASON CIPRIANI
LOGITECH
www.logitech.com/en-au
PROS You can use any case; great battery life
CONS Slides around on smooth surfaces
$79.95
REVIEWS
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D-Link mydlink
Network Video
Recorder
The more cameras you add, the more
affordable the DNR-312L becomes.
-Links mydlink Network Video

Recorder with HDMI output
(DNR-312L) is a misleading
product. It looks for all the world like a
NAS (Network-attached Storage) box,
it has a NAS-like user interface and its
priced like a NAS box.
But the DNR-312L differs from
that breed in two important ways: its
dedicated solely to video surveillance
and there are no camera licences to
buy. Indeed, the DNR-312L supports
a whopping nine cameras without any
further purchase.
With more general purpose NAS
boxes, you often must pay additional
licence fees when you connect
cameras. On the other hand, a true
NAS box offers all sorts of other
functionality, too.
Factor in $50 for the 1TB drive
that youll need if you want to record
anything, and youre talking $450 for
the DNR-312L. Thats a very NAS-like
price tag, because as with everything
NAS or surveillance related, you pay a
hefty premium.
D-Links DNR-312L offers no
advantage over a NAS such as the
QNAP TS-251 when youre talking
about two cameras and the QNAP
delivers a boatload of non-surveillance
features. The instant you go beyond
two cameras, however, QNAPs $60
licences start to add up. There are
other NAS boxes that offer video
surveillance for less money, but the
TS-251 is one of the few that offers
HDMI output at a similar price to the
DNR-312L.
The HDMI output allows the DNR312L to render its interface on a local
display, so you can manage the unit
without ring up a web browser on
another computer. The DNR-312L
also lets you attach a mouse via
one of its two USB ports, so you
can more easily navigate its user
interface. Oddly enough, however, it
does not support a USB keyboard.
D-Link promises a rmware update
will x this, but youll need to rely on
a virtual on-screen keyboard to enter
your user name, password and other
information until that update arrives.
I did my hands-on using nothing
but D-Link cameras for two reasons:
thats all I had on hand and at the
time of writing thats all the DNR-312L
supports. If youre sitting on a eet of
IP cameras from other vendors, you
can quit reading now and explore
other options. My blessings. Given my
situation, however, it was all good: the
DNR-312L located my three D-Link
cameras and automatically added them
with the only user input required being
the cameras user name and password.
The surveillance app dominates
the DNR-312Ls on-screen interface.
In fact, theres nothing else outside
of dialogues and setup screens. The
basic NAS administrative functions,
such as email notications, DHCP
serving, users and so on, are present;
but theres no user storage, media
streaming, BitTorrent support or
similar features.
D-Links interface is easy to use
and the standard surveillance features
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are all here: motion detection, camera

search, pan-and-tilt controls, logs,
review and more. It also records a
low-resolution stream and a highresolution stream, with both available
for playback.
If youre starting your network
surveillance system from scratch, the
DNR-312L is worth checking out. Its
easy to set up and operate and its
signicantly cheaper than traditional
NAS solutions when you exceed two
cameras.
The DNR-312L, however,
currently supports only D-Link
webcams (an upcoming rmware
update promises third-party camera
support) and it lacks the diverse
non-surveillance functionality of the
NAS competition. That renders it a
surveillance appliance competing
with canned low-end consumer
surveillance systems. Viewed in that
context, the DNR-312L is no particular
bargain. C
JON JACOBI
MACFIXIT AUSTRALIA
www.macxit.com.au
PROS Super easy to use; can be used with any
combination of 2.5in drives
CONS Swapping drives doesn't always give you more
space; poor performance, even with SSDs
$629 (ENCLOSURE ONLY)
64
REVIEWS
The Last Tinker:

City of Colors
A perfectly charming, family friendly platformer.
he Last Tinker hasnt received

the attention it deserves.
And it deserves quite a bit of
attention, because this is a great (if
simple) game.
The Last Tinker looks like a kids
game and it could be a kids game.
Its denitely pretty simple as far as
platformers go. In fact, I almost hate
to strap that genre onto it because
its not really a platformer. Jumping
occurs more like Assassins Creeds
free-running or Zeldas auto-jump
theres no dedicated button for it. You
just sort of reach the end of a platform
and then leap off it onto the next one,
or fall off if theres nothing waiting.
This lends itself to very uid, fastpaced animations and some clever
grinding sections reminiscent of Jet
Set Radio or some of the 3D Sonic
games, but it also makes the game
damn simple. If youre coming to
this expecting the challenge of even
Mario 64 (not a terribly hard game)
then youre going to be disappointed.
There are also a handful of easy
puzzles to break up the pacing, but if
youre at all familiar with games they
wont exactly leave you scratching

your head.
But The Last Tinker sort of lulls
you into a rhythm thats pleasant, if
not difcult, and it ends up feeling
like a miniature version of some
bigger games. Combat even has a
Batman: Arkham Asylum ow to it that
I never wouldve expected, and there
are the expected tributes to classic
platformers objects that explode
into currency when hit, collectibles
hidden in corners and a silent-but-stillsomehow-emotive main character.
You play as the titular last of the
Tinkers, Koru, a monkey-boy who lives
in the multi-hued city of Colortown. Or
at least, parts of it are multi-hued the
parts that arent infested by a bunch
of racists.
The Red, Green and Blue districts
of Colortown used to live in harmony,
but over time thats collapsed and
now all three districts live in big walled
ghettos to keep the other two groups
away. The only part of the city thats
still unied is the Market District, which
is where Koru resides. If only there
were some way of reuniting the city,
perhaps through some sort of worldending disaster

Colortown, and Tinkerworld in
general, is a place built from craft
materials. Its paper, glue, cardboard
and paint. When people talk in their
gibberish language, the words are
written in chalk on oating cardboard
speech bubbles.
Youre basically playing through
a claymation lm, like a technicolour
version of Chicken Run. The aesthetic
is denitely pulling most of the weight
in this game, with charming octopuses
and a sun that goes to sleep at night
to become the moon and even a Bob
Ross reference. The soundtrack is
similarly spectacular, with different
themes for each area and a few musicbased areas that take full advantage
of the wonderful orchestration. My
favourite was a twangy guitar theme,
but all of the tracks are solid.
Bottom line. Its just charming, OK?
If youre tired of browns and greys, the
drab colour palette of most modern
games, this is the perfect antidote to
gently glide through over the course
of a few nights. The Last Tinkers not
difcult for an adult whos reasonably
familiar with games, but I cant deny I
enjoyed playing it.
Yes, I wish it was a real platformer
instead of an auto-jump game, and I
think the nal boss needed tuning (or
at least some checkpoints). This is one
to toss on the shelf for the kids though
and then pull down late at night after
theyve gone to bed because damn it,
you want to play too. C
HAYDEN DINGMAN
MIMIMI PRODUCTIONS
www.mimimi-productions.de
PROS Gorgeous hand-crafted art style; interesting,
if predictable, story
CONS Repetitive puzzles
US$19.99 (VIA STEAM)
REVIEWS
This War of Mine conveys some horric truths

about civilian life during warfare and does so in
a way that only video games can accomplish.
heres a war going on and you

control a group of civilians
stranded in the middle of it,
the city crumbling around you. All you
have to do is survive until its over.
This War of Mine is split into a day/
night cycle. Days are spent playing
what amounts to a post-apocalyptic
version of The Sims. Youre shown a
side view of your entire base, which is
full of random supply caches to loot
and debris to clear when you stumble
upon it on Day 1 a valuable start to
your survival effort.
Supplies are then used to craft
other, more advanced items, many of
which are placed around your base.
Wood, for instance, can be converted
into boards for the windows, into
beds, into fuel for a stove, into a
rain-catcher, into a workbench, into
an animal trap, etc. Items range from
utilitarian the aforementioned stove,
for instance to morale-boosters like
a guitar or a comfortable armchair.
As you can imagine, with this
many things to craft youre quickly
going to burn through (maybe literally)
the supplies in your own base. At
night you assign your characters to
different roles. Sleep is necessary, but
rare. Youll have to cycle people on
and off sleep each night, with those

remaining awake fullling guard or
looting duties.
The latter makes up the second
half of the game. Each night youll
have the opportunity to send a single
character out into the city to loot
derelict buildings or not-so-derelict
buildings. You can only hit one
location every night, and once youve
picked over a place those items are
gone forever. Not only that, but over
time locations will gradually lose their
items to simulate other people looting
those locations.
A dozen days to keep your soul.
Those rst dozen days or so are full
of enough empty locations you can
mostly make your way in the world.
You can loot an abandoned house
here, steal from a front step there and
generally avoid coming into contact
with other survivors.
The game opens more and more
city locations each night though, and
eventually you reach a point where
all the empty areas are stripped bare
of valuables and youre forced into
contact with others on a regular basis.
Its at this point This War of Mine gets
uncomfortable. Because see, you
could go inltrate that military base
Bottom line. This War of Mine isnt

perfect as a game. Towards the end
of a run theres too much downtime
some of the systems are overly
exploitable and once youve got a
routine set theres little reason to
deviate.
This War of Mine conveys some
horric truths about the world we live
in, and it does so in a way that other
mediums could never accomplish
by forcing you to live with the guilt of
your own choices. C
HAYDEN DINGMAN
11 BIT STUDIOS
www.11bitstudios.com
PROS Powerful examination of civilian life in wartime;
simple interface belies plenty of depth
CONS Overly repetitive once you've worked out a
routine; some systems are a bit too easily exploited
US$19.99 (VIA STEAM)
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This War of Mine
for supplies, contending with an

entire army of well-trained men with
advanced weaponry. Or you could kill
a poor guy in the garage and take all
of his stuff without fearing for your life.
This isnt Call of Duty or Battleeld
or Medal of Honor. This isnt a story of
heroics, or valiant sacrice. Its a story
about rats. Its a story about how far
youd go to survive. And its easy to
abstract it to look at it as a game,
with virtual people doing virtual things.
What makes This War of Mine
particularly horrifying though is that its
not abstraction. Sure, the particulars
may be ctional. Sure, its an
oversimplication of human relations.
But there are people making these
choices, being put through these
situations, every damn day.
Thats a powerful message. This
War of Mine says more about the
realities of war with its small-scale,
side-scrolling interpretation than Call
of Duty has said across bombastic
sequel after bombastic sequel.
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Sony PlayStation TV
If youre regularly forced to stop playing video games and surrender the lounge
room, then Sonys PlayStation TV could be the perfect home peacekeeper.
he PlayStation TV is a palmsized box that acts as an

extender box for Sonys
PlayStation 4 games console. Inside
the PlayStation TV lives the guts of a
PlayStation Vita handheld console,
squished into a tiny set-top box that
connects to any television via HDMI.
It doesnt feature television tuners
and its not designed to replace the
Play TV tuner box available for the
PlayStation 3.
When someone else wants to use
the main television in the lounge room
you can pause your game on the PS4,
move to the PlayStation TV in another
room and pick up playing where you
left off. Of course, thats assuming
both devices are connected to your
home network via Ethernet or Wi-Fi.
Youll need to take your DualShock
controller with you, unless you have
a spare DualShock 3 or 4 controller,
which you can dedicate to the
PlayStation TV. Sony doesnt include
one in the box, even though the
PlayStation TV is useless without one.
You dont need to be in the middle
of a game to activate Remote Play; you
can use the PlayStation TV to remotely
commandeer the PS4 at any time.
Youre taking full control of the PS4, so
people in the lounge room cant keep
using it for something else (but they
can watch what youre doing).
Remote Play alone may justify the

PlayStation TVs spot in your home,
but this little box has a few extra tricks
up its sleeve. It features a memory
card slot on the back that lets you play
PlayStation Vita games, except for
those games that rely heavily on the
Vitas rear touchpad.
You can also tap into the online
PlayStation Store to play Vita,
PlayStation Portable and PSone
games something the PS4 still cant
do but the results are very hit and
miss. Theres only support for around
100 titles, and some arent available
in this region, so it really is potluck. If
you have a large collection of classic
games purchased via the PS3, dont
expect many of them to work with the
PlayStation TV.
Eventually the PlayStation TV
may also play PS3 games streamed
from the new PlayStation Now cloud
gaming service (formerly Gaikai),
although theres no word as to if
or when PlayStation Now will be
available in Australia. In the US you
can subscribe to PlayStation Now or
rent individual games, although early
pricing isnt great and youre generally
better off buying games that youre
keen on.
For its nal trick, the PlayStation TV
can also play movies and music from
a USB drive or stream them from a
home DLNA media server running on

your computer or Network-attached
Storage drive. This is something else
you cant do with the PS4 or Apple TV
without a little hackery. The PlayStation
TV also lets you buy or rent movies
and TV shows, but youre limited to
standard-denition for now.
Bottom line. If you own a PlayStation
4 and are heavily invested in the
PlayStation ecosystem, then Sonys
PlayStation TV may be a good t for
your home, especially if it stops ghts
over the lounge room. Unfortunately,
the PlayStation TV becomes less
attractive if youre more interested
in playing older games. If you want
to make the most of your collection
of games purchased from the
PlayStation Store, then your money
may be better off put towards an old
PlayStation 3 for the spare room rather
than the PlayStation TV. C
ADAM TURNER
SONY
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PROS Stream PS4 games
CONS Limited support for older games
$149
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